Deaf and Blind are never the barriers 

In-spite of being deaf and blind, an eighty five-year old man has been working with metals for sixty years. He has been making his own occupation with the art that he learnt from his grandfather from the age of twenty five.

Chennai, Mylapore august 22,2016: An old man who is about eighty five years of age has been succeeding in life with his own occupation that he has learnt from his grandfather. He is deaf and blind from the time he was born.He makes cones out of metal which are the materials used in the marriage ceremonies of Brahmans. 

He does the work through the practice that he has been doing from sixty years. The metal cones that he makes are being made by using tools like hammer and rods. But this man finds and uses the tools in a appropriate and accurate manner. He sells a pair for rupees fifty.

Most of them call him as "Thagudu thaatha". His native is Chennai and he is the only man who makes this material in the whole Mylapore. "He never stays in a place without working and he loves his work.Even after their children many times told to quit his work and rest, he refused to do it because he finds his happiness in his work",said his neighbour. 

He has three children and wife passed away. His two daughters are married and work as maids and his son is a driver and married too. He stays with his elder daughter and he has been taken care by all his three children. The elder one brings him the food everyday afternoon as he is busy all the day from morning 10 am to evening 4.30 pm.

"My dad is a gentleman. He loves his work and never he is a burden to us. I wanted him to be with me always and after my mom passed away ,he was very stubborn with his life and nourishing our lives",says the elder daughter.

"Am deaf and blind, but have never bothered me in my life nor were the barriers of my life. I took them as a challenge and learnt the work with love and devotion and has been succeeding all through my life. Even now i don't bother my children nor ask them money,instead i give them in their need",says Thagudu thaatha-"metal man".