Being a member of the erstwhile drafting committee for the Rights of People with Disabilities Bill 2012, I can testify to its stand that ‘it cannot be made perfect as every process involves breaking something else’. That was our guiding principle while drafting the Bill — one that was been jinxed from the beginning given the ups and downs with regard to opinions about it within the sector.
A wearable device developed by a 23-year-old Indian based in Kerala has just concluded an overwhelmingly successful campaign on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. Fin, a tiny hardware product that you can wear on your thumb as a ring and which converts your whole palm into a gesture interface, has raised about $200,000 from some 1,600 people around the world who have pre-ordered the product.
Students with disabilities are invited to register their names to participate in the events to be held as per the schedule below:
28th March 2014
The Assistive Technology helpline of the National Association for the Blind Delhi will conduct the first WORKSHOP ON Android Accessibility on Saturday 22 March 2014 from 10 am to 1 pm
With simultaneous assembly and general elections creating huge optimism in all sections of the society, office of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) is all set to make some identified polling stations friendly to persons with disabilities (PWDs).
It was in 1955 that my first article on “And Man Can Achieve Anything” appeared in Free Press Bulletin with M.V. Kamath as the Editor. Today, when the world has just celebrated the International Women’s Day (March 8), I would proudly say not only man but woman can achieve anything.
Beyond the obvious - athletes with paraplegia, missing limbs and visual impairments - one of the biggest differences between the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics is that there is no judged sport in the latter.
It's just slightly modified hockey and curling games.
With competition set to get underway Saturday, here is a capsule look at the Paralympic sports.
PARA-ALPINE
The case of Arjuna Awardee Ram Karan Singh, a differently-abled person, who was allegedly attacked by policemen during a protest in Delhi, has once again highlighted the bias of Delhi Government against differently-abled sportspersons.
She doesn’t spout quotable quotes like many others. Nor does she give you examples of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. She merely picks up vignettes from her own life — how struggling with blindness she often fell, but every time got up and walked again.
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