The joy of cooking can be experienced by anyone, that’s the driving thought behind a cooking contest for visually impaired people to be held nationwide soon.

Blind Masterchefs like Christine Ha have shown the world that given the right tools and training, people with visual disabilities can cook and cook well. Now, an upcoming cooking competition aims to give visually impaired people the opportunity to pit their skills against each other.

How useful is learning and playing chess for kids, particularly at-risk children? A lot, according to professors of education and nursing, probation officers, counselors, prosecuting lawyers, school teachers and administrators, and judges—in addition to parents and chess players.

Traveling independently is a major challenge that people with vision impairments face in India. There are many assistive devices available today to help overcome this. The National Association for the Blind and
multinational tyre manufacturing company Goodyear have come together to implement a project in Delhi to spread awareness about this.

Prem Bhagavan Nagaraju, 25, and Jyothi Kalaiselvi, 19, were scheduled to travel to the UK with a group of people from the disability organisation Devasitham Charitable Foundation based in Chennai.

Hundreds have signed an online petition addressed to UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid urging him to grant visitor visas to two blind musicians from India, who were due to perform in Scotland as part of a UK-India cultural exchange programme.

Shillong: A troupe of visually impaired musicians is hitting the right notes in this hill state, with night club owners and event managers lining up to hire them, more so after the state election department recently engaged them for pre-poll campaigns.

'Light After Dark', a musical band of five performers in their 20s, has been receiving rave reviews for its shows, not just in Meghalaya, but elsewhere in the region too, Zoma Sailo, a music teacher and the group's mentor, told PTI.