Cerebral palsy no hurdle for aspiring scientist – Times of India

JAIPUR: Suffering from severe cerebral palsy, Tuhin Dey (17) who barely stands on his feet and moves his hands is giving tough competition to his batchmates in a coaching institute for IITs in Kota.

A native of Midnapore in West Bengal, Dey is aspiring to become a physicists and cosmologists like Stephen Hawkins. Having studied in Central School located in the IIT Khadakpur campus till Class X, Tuhin came to Kota last month to pursue his dream of becoming a scientist in astro physics.

"I want to pursue my B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur followed by Masters form Oxford University. My biggest wish is to meet my hero Stephen Hawkins one day," said Tuhin. Since early years, he is suffering from Ortho Graphosis Multiplex disease which has made his tissues weak enough to handle his weight.

Dey is entitled to get a writer in the exams but the brave boy has full confidence and has developed extra ordinary skill of writing from the mouth. Tuhin unwraps books, holds pen in his mouth to write and uses his lips to use mobile and laptop with precision, accuracy and firmness matching to any ordinary boy. The speed at which he uses his lips for typing messages on a cell phone can give avid mobile user for run.

Fond of computer programming, he has self learned C++, Advanced Java etc. His programming skills can give shock to an engineering grad.

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