Vision impaired Tuan enlightens his kind
Vision impaired Tuan enlightens his kind By Chanaka de Silva 25th August 2015 "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." the poignant poem by Dilan Thomas gives strength to fight on, no matter what the odds. Such is the nature of the young man Tuan Mohammed Rushdi cassim. A person whose unfailing courage has pushed him to achieve thing that many, without any difficulty would envy and do well to emulate. Rushdi experienced vision problems and colour blindness at an early age. Though undeterred he carried on with the plate, life served him. Doing well academically he only wanted to achieve the goals he had set out. And achieve them he will. During the 3rd year of his degree in Management Information Systems at NIBM, things took a turn for the worst. His failing sight progressed very quickly. Tuan was diagnosed with Retinitis pigmentosa a visual impairment in 2009. "At first some of the coloured segments of the sli...