“I may not be able to fly an aircraft, but I can certainly find my way home,” says Pratik Rajiv Jindal, who has not let his visual impairment deter him from dreaming big. 

He is one of the recipients of this year’s Helen Keller awards for disability which would be presented on December 3 to mark World Disability Day. 

The 29-year-old from Bengaluru suffers from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a genetic disorder where one loses vision over a period of time. It was at the age of 20 when Jindal was staring at a loss of vision. 

BENGALURU: Blind students struggle to find scribes. Thirty per cent do not manage to find one, approximates an NGO that has worked with the disabled for years.

If the students do, after they have worked on their lessons for a year and have convinced all around them that they can do as well as another able student, the scribe may not turn up on the day of the exam. It breaks the students’ courage and any interest to keep at their studies.

In a bid to make art accessible to the visually impaired, Delhi Art Gallery (DAG) Modern is hosting an exhibition with tactile replicas of works from the artist collective 'Group 1890'.

The initiative titled 'Abhas' has been executed by architecture and access consultant Siddhant Shah, who has reproduced the artworks in the form of embossed abstracts to allow blind people to touch and feel them.

"Through such initiatives we aim to overcome the physical and mental barriers for individuals and make art inclusive for all.

In a first-of-its-kind initiative in Kerala, a group of visually challenged people including children entered the world of learning by touching the Braille dots here, as part of the ‘Vidyarambham’ ceremony on Vijayadasami day on Tuesday. As many as 12 persons belonging to the age group of eight to thirty were initiated into the world of letters by making them read the braille alphabets at a special ‘Vidyarambham’ (beginning of learning) programme held at Plamood in the city.

BHUBANESWAR: Differently-abled students from across the State underlined the need for inclusive education in Government schools at ‘Prativa O Manthan’, a workshop organised by Swabhimaan here on Thursday.