I was born blind. My parents, they accepted it. Of course, my parents, they were absolutely keen that I should not lose even a single year because of my disability. So then they put me in Mata Laxmi School for the Blind at Sion when I was three. I did my pre K there. And at the age of six, I went to the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind, where I studied until 5th grade. In both those places, I was living in a hostel. So I would go there on Mondays and come back on Fridays. Many people said why should he be put in the hostel. They questioned my parents but they were absolutely keen. They said that you know, he should know the nitty gritty of life at this age and he should really learn to be by himself be independent because you never know when that will come in handy in his future life. After I finished my 5th standard, my parents decided that probably now it's the right time for him. I was in 11 then. So they decided, now he can be integrated with the regular mainstream schooling. So very close to my house, there was a very very amazing school, Swami Vivekanand School. That's where I got admitted for 6th standard. That's when I think my real journey like started because that is when I actually got introduced to the real world, you know, the world of sighted people, the world of boys and girls being together because Victoria Memorial School for the Blind was only a boys school. So that was one experience. And of course, parallely I was doing music. I always wanted to do music because when I was small, I used to sing. And apparently my dad said that when I was three, when I was taken to Shirdi, everybody stopped singing. And then I suddenly began singing. I was always singing and then I was giving all those private exams in music. So by the time I had completed my 12th standard, I had already completed the private graduation in music called the Visharad. So my dad said, " okay, you've done this but then, you know, there's really not much income in this field. So do you want to like take up something and maybe do music as a side thing?" But I was extremely clear. I said no, I wanted to do music. I went to the Mumbai University music department, in which I did my Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in music. Fortunately, by God's grace, you know, I did well in masters. I got the first rank and masters in 1999 in the University. I got a part time job in a school in Sion. When I was teaching music, I was going there twice a week. Meanwhile what happened was in 2000, Indian Association of Visually handicapped IAVH, they started this computer course in the same building where my music department was. So I took up this course. In fact, my parents said that, you know, why don't you try this course. And believe me, when I did that course, I really fell in love with computers. You know, I thought that wow, this is so amazing. Shilpi, after a couple of years after we finished the computer course she contacted and she said, would you be interested in doing this? I said yes, definitely. And believe me, I was actually earning more in that job than my music job.