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Salil Chaturvedi
He is a Managing Partner in Splash Communications, which provides communication solutions to NGOs along with designing and editorial services.
Karunendra Mathur
He is in the advertising field, having worked with various advertising agencies since 1981. Worked with Speer Communications, Chaitra, and Megacorp. Started Montage Advertising P Ltd in 1992 and since then has been with the agency as the Managing Director.
Thomas Chandy
He is the Country Director of Save the Children Fund since 2006. Earlier he spent nearly 12 years with Coca Cola India in various capacities. Prior to joining Coca Cola, he worked with Parley Bottling for 6-8 years. He began his carrier as Franchise Chemist with Parley Bottling in 1986. He was a key player in the launch of
Hindi radio show Eyeway Ye Hai Roshni Ka Karawan
Our hindi radio show Eyeway Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karawan was launched in 2005. The seventh season of the show will be aired every Wednesday at 9 p.m. on 30 stations of Vividh Bharti and Delhi station of FM Rainbow from 14 September 2011. Click here to read more.
Bengali radio show Eyeway Alor Patho Jatri
Our Bengali radio show Eyeway Alor Patho Jatri will go on air on 12 February 2012. Click here for details.
Latest episode of Eyeway Alor Patho Jatri
Episode 7 Season 1: Aired on 25 March 2012
Oriya radio show Eyeway Aloka Pathe Tuma Sathe
The second season of our Oriya radio show will be aired every Saturday at 6:25 p.m. Click here for details.
Latest episode of Eyeway Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karawan
Episode 7 Season 8: Aired on 18 July 2012
‘Among disabled, I want to focus on the marginalised'
Just before the commencement of the recent legislature session, the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, Prasanna Kumar Pincha, was in Bangalore to review the implementation of the Persons with Disabilities Act in Karnataka.
City gets country’s first ‘talking ATM’ for differently-abled
Tarak Luhar, visually impaired since birth, was the first to withdraw money from the country’s first ‘Talking ATM’ installed by the Union Bank of India on Wednesday at the Blind People’s Association (BPA) premise in Vastrapur. The machine did the talking through the head phones and he would just run his fingers on the Braille keypad on the machine.
Bank chairman and managing director D Sarkar inaugurated the disabled-friendly machine with a view to assist the visually and physically challenged.
QuickMedical® Launches Medicool Diabetes Products For Home Use And Visually Impaired
According to QuickMedical, Medicool provides unique products made to the highest quality standards. Insulin aids by Medicool are designed to help in measuring and administering insulin doses, and are Ideal for the homeuser in maintaining independence in their diabetes regimen.
The Medicool Insul-Guide Syringe Filling Guide is an ideal aid for people with diabetes who need help in accurately measuring their insulin, and the Medicool Count-a-Dose aid is specially designed for the diabetic who are visually impaired.
BPO company amazed at transcription skills of blind men
Aditya is excited. He has finished his six-month training course in medical transcription in just four months and will be joining his new job soon. There are many more like him waiting to finish the training course and join the job.
What began as a goodwill gesture has left the IT-enabled services BPO company Transtek, stunned at the skills of the young men of Ramkrishna Mission Blind Boys' Academy, Narendrapur. A few months ago, Transtek, which does medical transcription work for doctors in the US, approached the Narendrapur academy to train some of its students.
Unsung Heroes: Alisha
Call me Alisha. I can’t reveal my real name,” she says, as she speaks on the mobile with élan. At 24, she is as charming as Indipop singer Alisha Chinai. Her listeners are only too happy to hear a sweet voice enticing them for a mobile or landline connection.In just three minutes, Alisha manages to get a customer. What’s more, she handles 300 such calls a day though not all are ‘fruitful’. This camera shy Alisha’s face lights up when you talk ‘calls’.
Indian doctor creates medical history in cataract surgery
Eye Surgeon Dr. Amar Agarwal operated on a cataract through a 700-micron incision at the B.B. Eye Foundation in Kolkata. The incision was as wide as the tip of a .5 mm ballpoint pen, the thinnest ever used in phaco-surgery in any part of the world, so far.
Film screenings bring smiles to Pune children
Recently children — including hearing and speech impaired, mentally challenged, orthopedically impaired and even a batch of visually impaired — had trooped into the premises of Children’s Film Society of India (CSFI) to see the children’s films.
CFSI, as a part of a project, has been screening children's films in municipal and tribal schools for free. Needless to say the children were happy and enjoyed themselves thoroughly.
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