THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Unlike cricket, there is no diplomatic  issues when it comes to blindness. The 60-day online training  programme in assistive technologies for  education launched by a city-based NGO,  Chakshumathi, has students from Pakistan,  Europe, Africa, Caribbean islands along with those from India.
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Jammu: The School Education Department in Jammu and Kashmir is going to distribute 42 laptops among children who are visually impaired to provide inclusive educational support through technological interventions.

The laptops will be connected to braille tactile terminals lying in the resource rooms, School Education Principal Secretary Asgar Samoon said.
 

This will help the visually-impaired children to read and explore more learning resources from the internet,” he said.

KOCHI: You have seen him; the blind lottery seller, walking   ever so gently by the side of the bustling street. You might   have even bought a lottery from him regardless of whether  you have   a penchant for trying your luck or not. That man could have   been Venugopal Mani, the 32-year-old blind cricketer from  Badiyadka in Kasaragod district.

New Delhi, May 7 (PTI) Visually impaired Amina, who relies heavily on her sense of touch, wonders what kind of ''new life'' awaits her when the lockdown imposed in view of the coronavirus pandemic relaxes.

For Amina, it is a double whammy as not only touching any surface will put her at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus but also the new norm of social distancing would make the outside world more wary towards helping her and other blind people.

As a girl of 15, Nidhi Goyal wanted to be a portrait artist. Then she became visually-challenged, and turned to activism. “I was 16,” she says about losing sight to a rare genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa. “It was a struggle and I was slipping into depression until I looked at my own privilege.” She then decided to “do something about it”.