“Lack of sight is not all a curse, it is the enormous capacity within us which can help us to achieve our goals,” said Mariyam Cementwala, political officer at the US embassy in New Delhi, in an address to visually challenged students at Devnar Foundation for the Blind here on Thursday.
Cementwala, a visually challenged, is a foreign service officer in the political unit of the US embassy and advises the US government on strategic issues related to India.
In welcoming differently-abled people into their ranks, some companies are making sure their special-needs staff is as comfortable and efficient at the workplace as anyone else, ET reports.
Touchscreens have turned phones into computers. But the tech revolution has ignored the needs of the visually impaired. Now, Indian developers are working on the world's first Braille smartphone.
Umpteen reasons could be cited to give up when hurdles come across one’s way. Or stay scared before fate. Here, let’s take your attention to S L Harikumar, who now basks in the sweet success of winning a doctorate in Political Science from Kerala University.
Born visually-impaired, this assistant professor in Political Science cleared all the obstructions with his willpower and dedication to achieve his dream. He chose ‘Decentralisation and Development in Urban Local Government: A Study of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation 1995-2005’ as his topic.
Imagine a visually-impaired navigating through a crowded sidewalk or finding his way through traffic, without the aid of a walking stick or another person. In the near future, a blind person would be able to do so — by wearing a glove.
In a revolutionary technology, a city-based young student has come out with a device that can help the blind 'run through obstacles, or win a hurdle race' - in Abhinav Verma's own words.
'I am a Kannadiga from Bangalore," Sundeep Rao tells an audience full of Tamilians in Coimbatore. Then he bends over and makes a show of hiding his bottle of water from the room. Even though Rao's left hand takes a second longer to find the bottle, the Cauvery crisis reference works instantly, laughter fills the delay and no one notices the Kannadiga's real problem. Bullet dodged.
Engineers and mechanics from around the country needing specialised help with repairs turn to Riyazuddin, a visually-impaired motorcycle mechanic in Bhopal who can tell what is wrong with an engine just by listening to its sound.
Sangeeta is sightless but runs a residential school for the visually impaired in Bihar and is also the brain behind an NGO for helping poor children in the neighbouring villages.
Algorithms, a documentary about blind chess players in India, won the Ram Bahadur Tamang Best Film Trophy at the 9th Film South Asia (FSA) festival in Kathmandu.
The fest cocluded here Sunday.
The documentary tells the story of three visually impaired chess players, who compete at championships around the world.
Going beyond sight and story, the documentary, produced by Geetha J., delves into the hidden realms of subjectivity.
Directed by Ian MacDonald, it was completed in three years.
Hiroko Oyamaguchi is volunteer transcriber who transforms musical scores into Braille, enabling visually impaired musicians to read the notes.
It can be a long process even for a 30-year veteran like Oyamaguchi, 62, who says a complicated piece of Debussy music can take her up to a month to complete.
That all began to change in 2006.
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