SIGHT UNSEEN
Describe growing up as a blind person in India?
In school in south India, I was once asked to go out of the class when I answered a question. It was not because my answer was wrong, but because I was blind and I should not be answering the question.
My father was in the military and I changed schools a lot. At another school they sat me in the back row, and made me sharpen other children’s pencils because they didn’t think schooling was important for me. When I went to the blind school, the condition was worse because they wouldn’t teach
