The Purushottam Express is slated to become the first train in the country to have a Braille-embedded AC coach for the visually-challenged passengers. In a first of its kind, the Railways have manufactured an AC three-tier coach with Braille signages to be operational by the end of this month in the Delhi-Puri superfast Purshottam Express as part of its social commitment to make trains and stations more friendly towards specially-abled passengers.

 
 
If you were not able to see, would you seek new ways to express yourself creatively? Would you still take photographs? How might you cope in a world that caters so exclusively to people with sight? Blind photography is a field that poses all these questions — and more — by re-framing the way we think about photographs, as well as the people behind the camera.

His world is dark. Still, 50-year-old Raja has to work for a living in order to look after his family consisting of a wife and two children.

He is usually to be found inside a small shack on the uneven pavement opposite the Pandiyan pastry shop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. His frail and malnourished body is often hidden behind the piles of coconuts .

Artist Owen McCafferty listens as teacher JoAnn DePolo offers him advice on skin tone and brush strokes.

He takes in her words, nodding, before placing his face close to the canvas and getting down to business.
McCafferty, 51, is like many artists — creative and determined to express himself through his work. But he differs from most for one noticeable reason — he is visually impaired.