Artist Chintamani Hasabnis has been painting since 1990. However, the last four years have been special to him as he started creating art that enabled the visually impaired to see. To do this, the 52-year-old artist made art that focussed on texture to produce a 3D-style effect, which could be touched and felt. “Art like theatre, cinema and painting is very visual. Conversing with art has its own benefits,” said Hasabnis, “It is a universal medium and should be open to all.”
DEHRADUN: As many as 28 visually challenged students of Model School for the Visually Handicapped here attempted Class XII board exam this year, and for the first time, one of the students, Mohd ShahnawazAlam, scored an impressive 95℅ showing that his disability was not an impediment to academic success.Another blind student Ayushi Sharma from Jammu studying in Dehradun, scored 89.88℅.
It’s a beaming, end-of-trip group picture like countless others, except that three people are in wheelchairs, while a fourth is on crutches. It was taken at the end of a short trip to Udaipur that included visits to the City Palace and Lake Pichola.
The Braille version of a booklet — Climate Action: We Must Not Delay — dedicated to environmental issues such as carbon footprint, groundwater scarcity and air pollution was recently launched in the capital. The booklet, which was launched by N S Kang, secretary and director general, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, is part of the Science Express Climate Action Special.
For the last three years, a visually impaired teacher at a school in a village in Bulandshahr district, 55 km away from his residence at Modinagar in Ghaziabad, is running from pillar to post to get a transfer in a school close to his place.
Sameer Garg was a mere teenager when a debilitating spinal injury made a walking stick his companion. Not only did the disability take a toll on his personal life, but the Meerut lad also missed out on several lucrative job opportunities that were there for the taking. For a bright, full-of-life teenager, an incident like that can crush the spirit.
In a heart-warming gesture, Mumbai City responded to fulfil the dreams of Nikita Shukla, a visually impaired law student. When Nikita visited Radio City studios to collect her contest prize, she narrated her story to RJ Sucharita, who took her story on air and revealed it to the heart of the city on her show 11 se 2 wala Mumbai Masala.
Education and giving exams is no easy task for the impaired. And, those setting the papers seem oblivious to the issues plaguing these students, especially those attempting higher education tests.
Questions where it is necessary to see a diagram, figure, bar graph or chart are a bane for these students, even if they have a writer explaining it to them. And, question papers never take this into account.
About 40 kids in the age group of 5 to 15 years participate in the annual L V Prasad Eye Institute’s (LVPEI) camp every year from in and around the adjacent cities.
They go back not just learning a few songs, dances and poems, making friends for life and also getting trained to face life’s obstacles. Since its inception in 2011, the summer camp has given a new lease of life to many. Specially organised for the differently-abled children, the camp has been bridging the gap between them and the outside world.
An undergraduate student at St. Francis College, Hyderabad, walked into the office of the principal at Devnar Foundation and said she wanted to teach blind children painting. He was nice enough to tell her to go ahead, and she held a very successful workshop. To ensure she could do it, she had practised with her eyes closed and using indents to create a touch-based outline. On the second day of the workshop, a participant came up to her and told her, with confidence, that he could draw a fish on a shoebox using just his tactile sense.
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