jaipur like some fastfooted dance form his nimble fingers moved fluidly over the key board and within five minutes a query from a client was replied to like the computer his mobile phone is also in talk mode that helps him makereceive calls read and reply text messages from clients and consultants all over the world and also keep him in touch with over 40 employees at his it company he founded in 2010 prateek agarwal interacting with his employeesbut its not been easy for jaipurbased prateek agarwal perhaps the first blind it entrepreneur in the country to engage with a visual world with sound for him entrepreneurship was not by choice rather he had no other choice despite ranking among top three throughout his education till he graduated in computer science from niit university in neemranaevery time i sat for campus recruitment i was among the top performers i would score good in aptitude test reasoning group discussions and was actively participating in the activities but when it came to the final round the hr team of those companies would say i was an inspiration and they were extremely moved by my talent but at the end they would say they cannot hire a blind student said prateek reminiscing the events that shook his rocksolid confidence and conviction for a while which brought him to this point in his life this happened so many times over and again and then i started to feel devastated i used to cry and ask myself what more can i do to get a job and what is more there in my hand to do prateek addedhe could have taken to music or tried his luck in singing like some of his class mates would suggest him mockingly because people with blindness are thought to be best suited to pursuing those careers the visual world was so powerful and the ways of the world was so geared to it that operating it through sounds seemed to show up limitations but prateek is not used to giving up and decided otherwise by registering his company daedal technovations while in the final year of his engineeringinitially i had no clients i used to go shop to shop in the hot summer approaching local businesses asking them if they have any software requirements at that time the businesses were getting digital in areas like invoicing stock and hr management sometimes i would call up people and have three or four rounds of discussions about their requirements but finally when i would meet them they would feel flummoxed are you the same guy who was talking over phone they would ask me eventually they would say they cannot give the project to a blind man explained prateek of his struggles early on as an entrepreneurhowever he managed to get some contracts but those were not financially rewarding even though they gave prateek the experience he needed soon he realised that growth would be very slow if he