that said, i think I would take a point in appreciating Google. I too have similar issues (but with my eyes). If I were to join TCS, they would have rejected me for issues in my eye (I know cases that they rejected which were less complicated medically than mine) and now I too am in Google, working as a software engineer. Btw, none here know that I have problems with my eyes!. I just manage a standard living. The Indian services company have a lesson to learn. Appreciate people for what they do and not what they have.