chennai voice notes shared by his classmates on a whatsapp group helped a visually challenged student of tamil nadu dr ambedkar law university sail through the fiveyear degree so fard akshay kumar 22 a final year student of the fiveyear integrated course in law and commerce attributes his success to his friends who took up the initiative after practical difficulties faced by him while in school books had less pages and it was easier for the software kurzweil to convert the text into speech at law school scanning was tedious due to the number of pages says akshay who lost his eyesight completely when he was in class vi the symptoms were there since birth but by the time things could be corrected it was too late technology and absolute support from his mother k selvakumari a teacher at a government school in chennai helped akshay to come through his school exams with flying colours he secured 92 in his class xii cbse exams from using matchsticks on a chart to explain geometrical designs to scanning textbooks and converting them into audio files selvakumari gave her all until her son finished schoolwhen akshay went to law university the role was taken over by his classmates who relentlessly sent synopsis of handouts and exam preparation material for the past five years through voice notes i would say akshay is gifted to have got friends like them they have been patient so far and have been of immense help selvakumari said awaiting his final semester results akshay has maintained an aggregate of 71 thus farhe has plans to pursue postgraduation in law and then appear for the civil service examinations however law was not in akshays mind five years ago i wanted to start a music school i still want to do that hope i do it eventually says the a r rahman fan who has cleared grade4 exams for keyboard from trinity college london akshays favourite is my heart will go on from titanic which he plays often but the song that fits his story best is the beatles i get by with a little help from my friends