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187:, in eastern India. He was born deaf and as a child wore a sound processor around his neck. Bhattacharyya grew up speaking Bengali and learned to lipread. His parents were middle class and well educated, but struggled to find appropriate educational opportunities for their son. Bhattacharyya attended a mainstream school as the only deaf student; his mother occasionally sat in on his elementary classes to help fill in gaps in teaching.
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