The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places, said Ernest Hemingway. An innocuous irritation in Varun Sood’s eye would change his life - the diagnosis, Bell’s Palsy came too late. Told he couldn’t be fully cured, when even his family had nothing to offer but sympathy, Varun went into a depression, until he learned what miracles a healthy lifestyle can bring. As he heads to the ICN bodybuilding championship this December, he tells Sitara Suresh Naidu how he has become an inspiration to many.