This is the story of N.K. Singh, Senior lecturer, National Institute of Visually Handicapped School, Dehradun. While most of those who lose their eye-sight blame it as a curse for the sins committed in their previous birth and spend this life singing praises of god so that they could be normal in their next, the attitude of N.K. Singh is totally different and praise worthy. He lost his eyesight due to conjunctivitis when he was a toddler. His father tried his best to get him treated. The treatment was to collect seven types of stones from different roads and throw them into a well after waving them around the child’s head. The higher level of treatment was repeating the same with seven different flowers! When wisdom finally dawned upon the father he took him to a eye hospital at Aligarh where some medicine was prescribed but not purchased because he could not afford the six rupees needed! After all that when the child was finally taken for proper treatment to Delhi, it was too late as the optic nerves had atrophied. Read the full story