The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine whether a person suffering from disability of ‘low vision’, in which eyesight cannot be corrected or improved, can be allowed to pursue MBBS course and treat patients.
This contentious issue came up before a vacation bench of Justices U U Lalit and Deepak Gupta which wondered whether it would be feasible to allow a person with visual impairment to become a doctor and treat patients.
PUNE: In a couple of months, more than 20 actors, all of them visually impaired, will present Teen Paishacha Tamasha, a musical classic by noted Marathi writer and humourist Pu La Deshpande, with the help of recordings and Braille script.
Teen Paishacha Tamasha was Pu La’s take on The Threepenny Opera, a musical by German playwright Bertolt Brecht. It was originally a biting satire on the extreme inequality in Victorian England.
Students at TEDx Sayajigunj which was organized at Laxmi Vilas Palace on Sunday
Under the increased pressure of glaucoma, scientists want to help the neurons in our eyes better protect themselves and get better help from their friends.
They are working to see whether agents that activate the innate neuron protector sigma 1 receptor, or S1R, can do both.
Current glaucoma therapies work to reduce pressure in the eye by increasing outflow and/or reducing fluid production.
Are you unsure about which educational stream you should take?
Are you unable to make up your mind on which career path to choose?
Or do you simply want to understand how to prepare for your educational or career goals?
Let me start by saying this is my view and I am sure lots of you may agree or disagree with me and I am fine with that! It’s good to have differences.
Yes, I believe people with disabilities can do everything. Let me say this again, I believe that people with disabilities can do everything.
In a way, I have proved this through Barrierbreak, where people with disabilities co-exist with everyone.
Barbara Moore has been legally blind her entire life. Born with a condition called nystagmus with cataracts, she has limited vision, but Moore has never let her sight deter her from accomplishing what she set her mind to doing.
In fact, Moore taught herself to sew at an early age. “It was just something I wanted to do,” she recalls. “It was the day after New Year’s 1996 and I wanted to make a comforter. So, I bought a sewing machine and figured out how to sew.”
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