Ranchi will play host to the fourth and concluding one-day international match of Oxigen Cup-2015, the bilateral series between specially-abled cricket teams of India and Sri Lanka. The match will be played on Friday at JSCA International Stadium Complex.
KOCHI: Group of Technology Companies (GTech), an industry body of IT/ITeS companies in Kerala, has come forward to support the Cricket Association for the Blind in Kerala (CABK).
Rio de Janeiro: Jason Smyth was crowned the world's fastest para-athlete after he won a 100m race involving sprinters from all disability classes.
On a balmy August evening, a game of football is about to begin at the astroturf of the Regional Sports Centre in Kochi. Twelve boys are lined up on one side of the ground. Malaysian Loo Wai Keong, the technical advisor who monitors the game, throws the ball into the field. The game is afoot.
KOCHI:Players of the Indian Blind Football Team fought with the same intensity as that of professional football teams in the exhibition match held at the Regional Sports Centre here on Tuesday.
Motor-racing is not for the faint-hearted. But when you are deaf and blind, it takes on a different dimension.
Algorithms directed by Ian McDonald is the first ever feature documentary on Blind Chess. The heart touching documentary is being released theatrically by PVR across six metros, including Kochi on August 21. It is a documentary on the thriving but little known world of Blind Chess in India.
CHENNAI: Proving that he was every bit the altruist that he was deemed to be, five-time World Champion and Grand Master Vishwanathan Anand on Sunday took time off his hectic schedule to launch the release of Algorithms, a documentary on visually-challenged Indian chess players, with an audio-described theatrical preview in the city.
For, Bharath, an ITI student, who suffers from speech and hearing disability, aiming and shooting an arrow at the target was like a dream come true.
Disability is a state of mind, as these great personalities have pointed out. Life becomes dysfunctional only when we are paralysed by our lack of will to perform, and disabled when we lose the determination to break the shackles preventing us from achieving what we can.
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