Saurabh Pant is an Indian born author with sight loss due to Retinitis Pigmentosa who was born on 4th of April 1994 in the beautiful hill station of Nainital in Uttarakhand that is also known for its serene beauty and cultural glories.
After having pneumonia at age of 3, accepting the loss of vision at age of 5, he came in touch of Braille at age of 12 and had primary education in NIVH in Dehradun where he learnt a lot.
From a very early age he started to command braille once accepted as a student in NIVH in which he did well winning a few writing contests to get his journey going.
The author was in guidance of his seniors who taught him many things so he also learnt about screen reader access in computers through Jaws and started to play with Talking typer to boost his typing speed.
He returned back to inclusion after schooling and graduated from Kirori mal college in DU where he was a modest student of his time but he was supported by his department seniors to grow into writing at college level and his FB poetry rhythm was much appreciated.
His journey into writing had started to grow in school as he took his chances, but it grew in college where he performed further and He won prizes even competing with sighted people at places like PES and NLU.
With so many people urging him, Saurabh started to type his first manuscript and finally he published his 1st work titled Affection never dies in Sept 2014 from Power publishers located in Kolkata and he never looked back.
Today he is author of more than 120 works, has participated in global PL writing colabs and has won 9 international awards, has also contributed to Indian anthologies and has been recognised worldwide for his efforts in it.
The author likes to make friends and interact with juniors of his institute. He also likes to play guitar and enjoys a lot of vegetarian food. He feels more connected in between his visually impaired friends and likes to help them.
In 2022, he was supported by Digital Golgappa and Cosmoclan platforms and came to be known by the larger Indian spectrum. It kept growing as he appeared in various news forum websites and also got solo features in certain platforms.
Further in 2023 he was honoured by Ne8x officials for his famous quote book to celebrate his efforts and in 2024 he was rewarded with Best Author of the year from TIA for which he is thankful.
The author has been featured in Wiki Flux thanks to Inkzoid foundation in 2023 and he continues to find more ways to grow as he has 1 decade of glory behind to continue the journey and become a more prominent writer.
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Saurabh Pant – The Visually Impaired Author Who’s Redefining the Boundaries of Literature
