Bolla Srikanth was barely few years old when many in his community counselled his parents to abandon him. The pressure was heavy on his illiterate parents, a farmer father and housewife mother, but they never yielded. Had they heeded their advice, the world would have been minus one inspiring story today.
Many people who have a disability don't let it prevent them from leading a fulfilling life. They are an inspiration to both disabled and non-disabled people alike. Alpana Dubey, Goma Rai, and Vishal Jain are among the few people who have proven that visual impairment cannot deter them from achieving their goals.
The Bombay high court on Monday sought details of the seats reserved for disabled candidates in Indian Institutes of Management across India and the number of such candidates admitted during the current academic year.
Hearing a petition filed by a city-based TYBcom student Rahul Girreddy, who dragged the IIMs to court, a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice S C Dharmadhikari has given IIM-Ahmedabad time till July 6 to submit the details.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the government to consider treating physically challenged people at par with SC/ST candidates while granting relaxation in qualifying marks for admission in professional courses. The court asked the government to consider the recommendations of chief commissioner for disabilities who had directed all government-aided institutions to extend the relaxation in qualifying marks to physically disabled candidates in order to bring them at par with SC/ST candidates.
Caroline Casey
Social entrepreneur
Visual impairment : Born legally blind due to ocular albinism
Caroline Casey a former management consultant was born legally blind.
Helen Keller
Social Entrepreneur
Nature of visual impairment : Went blind and deaf due to illness eighteen months after birth.
Born : 27 June 1880
Died : 1 June, 1968
The daughter of Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller, Helen was born with full sight and hearing in Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S. on June 27, 1880 in a white, frame cottage called 'Ivy Green.' Her father was the editor of a newspaper, the North Alabamian.
Joan Brock
Inspirational Speaker
Visual impairment : Macular Degeneration
Born: January 22 1952
Joan Brock is a woman who believes in herself. And the world believes in her too. A belief that has helped her in achieving extraordinary personal goals, overcoming significant hardships in life.
Dr. David Wohlers
Chemist
“I am not the first blind chemist and I am not the only blind chemist, but I am one of the few blind chemists” says Dr. David Wohlers.
Dr David Wohlers is a world renowned chemist. He obtained his Ph.D in chemistry from the Kansas State University, U.S.A., with a specialization in inorganic synthesis and photochemistry—the study of how light alters the chemical properties of a substance.
Sabriye Tenberken
Creator of Braille Script of Tibetan Language
Visual impairment : Blind since the age of 12 due to a retinal disease
Born : 1970
Sabriye Tenberken is a native of Cologne in Germany. When she was 12, a congenital retinal degenerative disease led to loss of sight.
Louis Braille
Inventor
Visual impairment : Became blind at three, due to accident
Born : 4 January, 1809
Died : January 6, 1852
Louis Braille was born January 4, 1809 , in Coupvray , France , a small country village about twenty-five miles east of Paris. He lived with his mother, Monique, his father, Simon-René, his two older sisters, Monique-Catherine and Marie-Céline, and his older brother, Louis-Simon. Their home was a stone cottage in the village.
Kent Cullers
Physicist
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
The elder child of George Cullers, a physicist, and his wife, Wanda, a college administrator, Cullers was born seven weeks prematurely in El Reno, Oklahoma, at a time when it was standard practice to immerse 'preemies' in pure oxygen. Overexposure saved his life but destroyed Cullers' retinas and left him totally blind.
Senator
“I am not just a blind senator, I am a senator who happens to be blind.” This is what Kerryann Ifill, had to say after she took the oath in February 2008, to become one of the 12 government senators of Barbados. She is the Deputy President of the Senate. She also said it was an honour for her that Prime Minister David Thompson, thought her worthy to sit in the Upper Chamber.
David Blunkett
Former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
A Paralympic Gold Medalist
Champions come and go, but little do we remember the glorious winners of the past. Ping Yali is one among them.
Ping not only was the reason for the Chinese national flag to be hoisted for the first time at a Paralympics field but she was the first ever Chinese citizen to win the Paralympic Gold, even before Xu Haifeng, who won it almost a month later at the Olympics.
Marla Runyan
Athlete
Visual impairment : Blind since nine years
Heinrich Wagner
An adventurer and
a motivational speaker
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
“It is better to be blind and have vision, than to be able to see and have none”, says Hein Wagner.
An athlete and also an artist, author, and motivational speaker.
Visual impairment: Due to damaged nerves of the retina.
Born: 1955.
This is the story of a man who challenged his fate to become a distinguished painter, an Olympic participant, an inspirational speaker, a published writer, and most importantly, a man who is not defined by his limitations but his achievements. He is George Mendoza from USA.
Erik Weihenmayer
Erik was born on 1968, with retinoscheses, and was completely blind by the age of 13 due to glaucoma.
He speaks movingly of the role his family played in breaking through the barriers of blindness: his mother, who prayed for the miracle that would restore his son’s sight and his father, who encouraged him to strive for that unreachable peak. Erik recalls his struggles to push past the limits placed before him, by seeing the world as much as by his blindness.
Having studied only till the 19th grade from the National Open School, Preeti’s edu
David Blunkett (born June 6 , 1947 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Home Secretary since 2001. He has been blind since birth.
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