Writing exams for a visually impaired student: What does it feel to be someone’s voice?

“Studying for an exam doesn’t worry me as much as finding a person who could write my exam does,” says Sanjiya Shrestha, a visually impaired student currently studying her master’s level at Tribhuvan University .

It was four months ago when one of my teachers asked me to take out my time for four days to write the exams for a visually impaired student. It did not take me a second thought to say yes. I was more than ready to do it until I felt a kind of nervousness.