How many times have you and I complained about the state of our roads and pavements riddled with potholes? While many of us manage to make our way around them, these can often translate into a real danger for the visually impaired.

Very few residing in cities might be aware that the yellow line dotting the pavement, or tactile pavement as it is called, is actually meant to aid the visually impaired. Any disruption in these - in the form of trees, electric poles or potholes - poses a menace for those who take to the tactile pavement for navigation. 

The television series to feature real-life stories of visually impaired and blind achievers in India across various fields

Renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah to be a part of the weekly television series, which will air every Saturday at 9:30-10:00AM starting September 21, 2013

Imagine a place where blindness is considered a punishment for the sins committed in your previous birth and the visually-impaired live as outcasts! Sabriye Tenberken, a German who became visually-impaired at the age of 12, encountered this in Tibet. She visited the country in 1997 for an academic project.

Beijing has the longest tactile paving for the vision impaired among all the cities in the world. In theory, they are a great idea to facilitate mobility for the vision impaired, but in reality few use it because as one vision impaired person in Beijing said, "It is practically suicide to use them."

Tactile paving is made of colorful raised tiles, usually yellow, that allow vision impaired people to navigate their way.

A social networking group has stepped forward to help visually impaired students in Bangladesh through its unique efforts.

When school students in Bangladesh returned to their classes in January, those who are blind or visually impaired were left at a considerable disadvantage. Textbooks in Braille were months late in coming, leaving them without resources for their studies.