CHENNAI: Kathirvel Vijayabalan, a topper from the Government Higher Secondary School for the Blind in Poonamallee, always wanted to become a district Collector.

Tiruvannamalai: About 70 kilometres from Tiruvannamalai district headquarters is Sengulam village, which has frequently made headlines for all the wrong reasons as many youths from this place had been booked on charges of red sanders smuggling. However, this time two visually impaired siblings have done the village proud by being the first graduates from there.

AJMER: Sunday saw a unique event for visually impaired individuals to showcase their poetry skills in Ajmer.

Shikha Dubey, a visually impaired girl from Dewas, Madhya Pradesh presented a poem on ‘Shinghar Ras’ (beauty essence) about the beauty of flowers that drew loud claps from the audience.
The program was organized by the literary society of India along with Paras Charitable trust in which visually impaired poets got a chance to showcase their wide range of imaginations in the form of poetry.

When S Bhuvaneshwari’s husband turned his back on her and their two daughters, she was shattered. She didn’t know how she would shoulder their responsibility single-handedly. She took up a job, borrowed money from her sister and did whatever she could to make ends meet and ensure that her children’s education did not suffer.

BENGALURU: Students from the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) in Mysuru have developed a self-powered navigation system to aid the visually-impaired by generating the embedding transducers in their shoes.

Students A Anusha, S Ashwini, CB Divya and MH Kalpana, under the guidance of Shivaprasad N, assistant professor, Department of E and C, have developed the device. They have worked hard for six months to improve the quality of the gadget.