MADURAI: For 30-year-old visually-impaired B Velmurugan, life so far has been full of struggles. Fighting against all odds, he managed to complete MA BEd by doing errand jobs. Velmurugan started Thuimai Vizhigal Trust in 2013 to make life easier for others like him and help them complete their education.
NEW DELHI: How do the visually impaired read?
The Feel the View prototype uses haptic feedback and artificial intelligence to give blind and visually impaired passengers the opportunity to experience the view out the car window.
The final leg of Third Edition of the National Blind Football Tournament for the visionless concluded with flying colours in Kochi, Kerala on Tuesday.The home team won the game and with it the sparkling trophy too. The tournament which started four days ago was organized by Indian Blind Football Federation (IBFF)-an independent federation setup in 2016 affiliated to the Paralympic Committee of India & IBSA New Delhi, with an aim to promote sports in the blind people's community.
Clifford Alexander scoops a handful of black ballpoint pens, drops them into a small box and shakes it with a blackjack dealer’s nonchalance. He slides in the next handful to make an exact dozen, and sends the box down the assembly line.
Mr. Alexander, who is blind, performs the quick act again, box after box.
Visual impairment was never an unconquerable hurdle for B. Karthi, who has been selling Benzoin resin, or sambrani, for 10 years now. However, with the help of good Samaritans like those from Padikkatugal, a volunteer-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), life becomes easy for him, he says.
Hyderabad: Disability is merely in a person’s mind and this has been proved by the recently released UPSC results. Over 29 differently-abled candidates have made it to the IAS selections. Of these, there were 9 orthopaedically challenged, 8 visually challenged and 12 hearing impaired candidates who have made the cut. These candidates have stated that it took a lot of hard work and support from people who thought beyond their disability like their teachers and parents.
Jayant Mankale, a visually impaired 25-year-old and the son of water pump operator cleared the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination this year, securing an all India rank (AIR) of 923.
Mankale, a resident of Beed, studied mechanical engineering from Amrutvahini College of Engineering, Sangamner and cracked the civil service exam in his fourth attempt in the specially abled category. He now hopes to land his dream job in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS).
CHENNAI : ‘Sri Shivaranjani’ orchestra by the visually challenged performed for the 33rd anniversary of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Sankara Medical Trust and Shraddhanjali to Sri Jayendra Saraswati of Kanchi Mutt to an enthralled audience. The event happened at TN Rajarathinam Pillai Muthamizh Peravai Hall on Sunday.
Calling people "blind" is old-fashioned and misleading, a charity has said as it looks for a new name.
Oxfordshire Association for the Blind is searching for alternatives to make it more appealing and less "scary" to parents, young people and visually impaired people.
The charity's fundraising manager Laura Howdill said that people had been shocked and upset by the charity's name because of the stigma and misunderstandings attached to the word "blind".
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