“My life runs on a perennial soundtrack. There’s a constant ringing, buzzing, clicking and roaring that nobody else can hear. It’s a phantom noise, an insidious force that chips away at your peace, concentration and sleep. It is the sound of silence being permanently broken. I know the routine well. The moment I lay my head down on the pillow, the relative silence of the room amplifies the noise in my head. Suddenly, it’s not a subtle ring; it’s a screech, a hiss, a mechanical whine, a reminder that my hearing is perpetually out of sync,” shares Amit Chandra, 66, a sound engineer and technology adviser, who has been grappling with tinnitus — a condition where you feel a buzzing noise in the ear without an external source —for more than a decade now.

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