---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Nochur Ramanathan" Date: 30-Jun-2017 2:48 AM Subject: blind entrepreneur To: "Narayanan Ramakrishna Iyer" <[email protected]> Cc:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Nochur Ramanathan" <> Date: Jun 29, 2017 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Fw: blind entrepreneur To: "Tehmul Homavazir" <> Cc: Good one! > > On Jun 29, 2017 5:00 PM, "tehmul" wrote: > >> >> ----- >> *Subject:* blind entrepreneur >> >> He is Srikanth Bolla, a 24 year old blind entrepreneur from Hyderabad. >> When he was born, his parents, who were earning Rs 20,000 in a year, were >> advised to get rid of him, but somehow he survived. >> >> >> >> Despite getting 90% in class 10th, he was not allowed to chose Science >> stream for 12th; he sued the State Govt., fought for 6 months, and won the >> case. He scored 98% with Science in 12th. >> >> When IITs and NITs didnt give him hall ticket for writing competitive >> exams, he applied overseas, and got selected in 4 of the best colleges ever >> created on Earth: MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon. He chose >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received a scholarship, and was >> MIT's first International blind student. >> >> After returning from US in 2012, he launched Bollant Industries, where >> 60% of employees are poor, physically challenged. This 450 employees >> company is now worth Rs 50 crore, and recently, *Ratan Tata* invested in >> his venture. >> >> As per him, “I was made blind by the perception of people.." When the >> world said to him that you can't do anything, Bolla said, "But I look up at >> the world and say I can do anything." >> >> *Salute* >> >> *Respect* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *Watch your thoughts; they become words.Watch your words; they become >> actions.Watch your actions; they become habits.Watch your habits; they >> become character.Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.* >> >> [image: SB] >> >> >> >> *From:* Sam Bharda [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* 29 June 2017 02:47 PM >> *To:* SamG Bharda <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* WhatsApp Chat with Farokh Bhandari >> >> >> >> Chat history is attached as “WhatsApp Chat with Farokh Bhandari.txt” file >> to this email. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
