Kochi girl who topped Class 12 in CBSE disabled category is also a YouTuber, singer and speaker

She is a YouTuber, a singer, a motivational speaker, and, since Friday, a CBSE Class XII topper. Kochi resident Hannah Alice Simon, who has microphthalmia, a situation leading to blindness for her, topped the class of scholars with disabilities — scoring 496 out of 500.

For the 19-year-old humanities pupil, who has at all times studied in a "common" college, negotiating life is a problem she had been ready for from a younger age at dwelling.