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IAS Pranjal Patil: Losing Eyesight at Age 6 to India's First Blind Woman IAS

Their story

Losing sight in both eyes by age six in Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra, Pranjal used screen-reading software to listen to UPSC textbooks at high speed and cracked the exam twice, becoming a District Collector tier officer.

Key lesson

Vision is a quality of the mind, not merely of the eyes.

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