At our health camp in RT Nagar last December, Imran read the top line of the eye chart and nothing else. His teacher had marked him as distracted for two years.
His spectacles arrived nine days later. His next class test was the best he had ever written.
“The blackboard has small letters. I didn't know.”— Imran, 9
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