Blindness is no hurdle for this Hyderabad student who accomplishes his long cherished dream by passing out on Monday as a Chartered Accountant. The undeterred student brings pride to the city and to the whole section of the 'visually challenged' youth who aspire for higher goals. He has been the first visually challenged person to accomplish the course as per records.

The Achiever, J Rajashekhar Reddy is 23-years-old, but lost his sight when he was just eleven years old. In spite of wide doubts over his ability to achieve from many of his associates, they helped him a lot in reaching his goal. The last five years were hectic for this young man who used to work for a C A firm, study B Com in distance mode and prepare for his exams.

He avidly collected soft copies of books, scanned them and used text-to-speech software to record them. Aided by these soft tools he used to record his studies and listen to them frequently. Late nights, early mornings and when ever he had time he used to prepare for the mighty exams that has the highest global value. During the exam, he was allowed to bring in an attendant to write the exams for him. He had been tested in six theory and two practicals before ushering success.

His story is an encouragement for people with disabilities to achieve larger than life dreams. This young man is born to parents who migrated from Guntur district to the city. The whole endeavor was funded by Devnar School for the Blind.

It is rightly said that Rajashekhar only lost his sight but not his success. Wishesh joins the huge base of readers in wishing this young man 'a great future.'(Wishesh AarKay)