Commemorating October as the Blindness Awareness Month, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness announced a photo contest on its website in line with this year’s theme of #HopeInSight. Photographers around the globe sent in their entries to raise awareness about eye health.
Keeping up with the optimistic spirits, we thought of sharing a few pictures clicked by a visually impaired girl in Mysore, Karnataka.
By Shruti Pushkarna
Gratitude. Given all that’s been happening around us in the recent times, this is one word I like to begin and end each day with. Because I truly believe, I lead a good life (well, in most parts). In fact, a lot of us do. But somehow we forget and take things for granted. Until something surprises or shocks us into believing otherwise.
Webinar organize by Sambhavana on Disability,
Universal Design and the Politics of Inclusion.
RPD Act 2016 talks about the Universal Design and Accessible Consumer Products to be ensured by the Indian State. To deliberate upon this important issue, Sambhavna is coming up with a Webinar on 'Disability,
Universal Design and the Politics of Inclusion' on coming Saturday, 10th October 2020 at 6:00 P.M. Dr. Tara Prakash Tripathi, Faculty Associate, College of Integrative Sciences, Arizona State University,
Discovering Hands is a project from Germany and an initiative of Dr. Frank Hoffman, a senior Gynaecologist in Germany. They have been training blind women for last 10 years to detect the early signs of breast cancer. The visually impaired women with their highly sensitized touch and tactile sense are trained to detect the smallest lumps of breast cancer thereby preventing it at early stages by doing physical examination of breasts. Therefore they are designated as Medical Tactile Examiners (MTEs).
Kohima | October 8
Marking the World Sight Day, the eye care practitioners (Ophthalmologists, Optometrists and Ophthalmic Assistants) of Nagaland today conducted free eye check up in various clinics in Kohima and Dimapur.
This eye check-up aims to stress on the importance of eye health and to give quality eye care to the people of Nagaland.
Kezhangulie Mepfhü-o, Eye Optics, Kohima said World Sight Day is celebrated on the second Thursday of October every year.
It aims to spread awareness about blindness and visual impairment.
This story was first published in The Times Of India on October 8, 2020)
The latest episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 starts with previous day's roll-over contestant Asmita Madhav Gore. The 22-year-old contestant, who came on the show to support her family, was accompanied by her visually-impaired father. Asmita played the game quite well and with the help of four lifelines she was able to reach till Rs 25 lakh question. However, as the young girl was not sure about the answer and had also exhausted all the lifelines, she decided to quit the show.
A strip of cloud cut across the sun, over a grand old dormant volcano in Mauritius — a beautiful setting for a picture, thought Pranav Lal, on honeymoon with his wife Sacheta. Being born blind has not stopped this Delhi-based cyber-security specialist from choosing photography as his hobby. Pranav is in fact one among a number of amateur photographers with visual impairments in India.
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Hope you’re doing fine. Been a while since I wrote and am sure you know why. To say that covid-19 has upended our lives is an understatement. Like a boxer looming over you after a knockout punch, the disease still rages on, incapacitating and killing people, destroying businesses and leaving a scar that is unlikely to fade away.
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Health Minister Banna Gupta today said that the state-run Eye Banks will be connected with the nationwide cornea distribution system so that other eye banks in the State, where there is a long queue of cornea-related visually challenged people waiting for eye transplant can get cornea. This will help make available cornea to the visually impaired in time and their vision can be restored.
Having renovated the old district library in Civil Lines in 2019, the district administration is now planning to set up a second public library in DLF Phase-1. From having a collection of more than 50,000 books for general readers, students and the elderly, the library will also have an employment desk and audio classes for the visually impaired.
Retina and cornea consultants have urged people to watch out for eye-related complications after recovering from COVID-19.
Specialists from L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) said that critically-ill COVID patients who were administered steroids to mitigate complications in lung and other organs can be at risk of developing steroid related ocular complications.
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Eyeway Encounters with Dr Umang Mathur
On Thursday 8 October 2020, the World Blind Union (WBU) joins the rest of the world in observing World Sight Day. World Sight Day is the main advocacy event for raising awareness about blindness and vision impairment - The Right To Sight - and is observed annually on the second Thursday of October.
By Shruti Pushkarna
Lately, I have found myself unwinding to reruns of old favourite TV shows (now easily available on OTT platforms). The extensive amount of work unleashed by the pandemic, both on the professional as well as home front, leaves me utterly exhausted. So I treat myself to a nightcap in the form of yesteryear soap operas.
By Shruti Pushkarna
I’ve been writing this column for a little over nine months now. I have attempted to state facts, voice certain pertinent issues, identify gaps, highlight the absence of empathy and compassion towards anyone who is labeled as the ‘other’. I’ve even criticised the media for ignoring matters pertaining to persons with disabilities. So I thought it’s a good time to pause and ruminate on my own self. Point the finger inwards for a change.
Let’s rewind to 2016.
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