From a blind school in Chennai to Cambridge and IIT Madras: Prof Hemachandran Karah’s inspiring journey. (Photo: LinkedIn) For many students, the journey from school to higher education is filled with familiar challenges — examinations, competition, financial pressures and the uncertainty of choosing a career. For Prof Hemachandran Karah, the path involved an additional barrier: navigating an education system that was not always designed with visually impaired students in mind.Yet his journey took him from the Little Flower School for the Blind in Chennai to the University of Cambridge and eventually to IIT Madras, where he is now an Associate Professor in the Department of...

Satyam Kumar's story begins in a farming household in Bihar and leads, more than two decades later, to a research role at Texas Instruments in the United States. In between lies a path that runs through the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, a PhD at The University of Texas at Austin, and a research internship at Apple. It is a journey that has been circulating widely online, and the details behind it are worth laying out properly.From Bakhorapur to IIT KanpurKumar was born on 20 July 1999 in Bakhorapur village in Bihar's Buxar district. He grew up around farming, in a setting far...