In school, he was made to sit on the last bench, not because he was tall. His teachers found him impossible, not because he didn’t pay attention in the class. During the PT hour, he was forced to sit out, not because he couldn’t run. His classmates shunned him, not because he couldn’t play. The ‘establishment’ asked him to take arts, not because he wasn’t good at science and maths. The IIT said he cannot, not because he couldn’t. At home, he was not the ‘apple of eye’ because he was sightless. The world around him was cold and the walk lonely for Srikanth Bolla. As a child, the cruel taunts stuck him in his face like brutal punches.
But Srikanth is a fighter, almost like a boxer in the ring, the 27-year-old remained tenacious in his pursuit. When the Andhra Pradesh Education Board refused to grant him permission to choose maths, physics and chemistry in Intermediate, he filed a lawsuit, won and pursued MPC. When IIT discriminated him on the basis of his disability, he ‘winked’ at the country’s premier institute for its ‘blind policy’ and went to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). As a fitting reply for being ignored at the PT class, he played cricket for India and chess at the national level.Click Here: essendon bombers guernsey 2019