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Double-amputee defies odds to score 471 marks
The New Indian Express Madurai
|May 09, 2025
DEFYING all odds, an 18-year-old boy with no hands scored 471 marks in his Class 12 exam, near Gurubarapalli in Krishnagiri district.
DEFYING all odds, an 18-year-old boy with no hands scored 471 marks in his Class 12 exam, near Gurubarapalli in Krishnagiri district. A Krithi Varma of Jeenur village lost both hands and three toes on his left foot after an electrocution incident at a poultry farm in Hosur when he was three. Following the incident, his father abandoned them and his mother, Kasturi, has been taking ca
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