November 18, 1969

  Mr. and Mrs. Narayaswamy’s house was buzzing with excitement for the third time. Their third child was born, a lovely boy after two wonderful girls. They named him Ramakrishnan. As months flew by, Mrs. Narayanaswamy started observing signs in the baby boy that seemed to point to a medical concern. Ramakrishnan was diagnosed with athetoid cerebral palsy. It was a permanent movement disorder and RK, as he is popularly known, had a battle to begin.

  His restricted motor movement meant that RK could not undergo formal schooling. But his high IQ was to be nurtured. So every day when his sisters returned from school, RK would listen to them and learn several new things. He was homeschooled by his parents as well with basic education and was encouraged to use his feet to write, draw and engage in activities such as making new structures using building blocks and solving the rubic cube with his feet that he had better control....