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Blindness is the loss of only the surface of things. Despite being visually challenged, Mahesh S.Panicker of Ezhmattoor, Pathanamthitta had bagged first rank in Higher Secondary School examinations (humanities) in 2001 followed by equally brilliant performance in the BA Political Science examination of the Mahatma Gandhi University. “Getting into the IFS or IAS is not that difficult. I prefer to be an academic rather than limit myself to the Civil Services. I have an aptitude for teaching,” Mahesh, who is now pursuing his post graduation in International Relations at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Supported by his father, who gave up his job to bring him up, and his mother and sister who used to read out to him books, he has been able to achieve distinction not only in academic field but in arts and play also. He was the ‘Kalaprathibha’ at the District level Youth Festival in Pathanamthitta in 1996. He used to play cricket and gave religious discourses at nearby temples. He is good singer too.
Mahesh loves books, music, quiz and cricket. And he has been blessed with an analytical mind. His mentor and lecturer in political science at the Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla, Dr.Mohan Varughese recalls how he came across the 12-year-old Mahesh during a quiz competition and the young lad surprised him with his talk on the intricacies of international relations.
Well, it appears, visual impairment has only robbed him of the surface of things.
Courtesy: Radhakrishnan Kuttoor, The Hindu, February 8, 2005
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