Category: General

India is home to 2.7 crore people living with one or the other kind of disability. According to the 2011 Census, 2.21 percent of India’s population is disabled. Unlike the developed world, India’s disabled are made further socially vulnerable by lack of quality education, lack of women’s safety, and attitudinal barriers as they continue to grapple with the challenges of access, acceptance, and inclusion.

At their introduction, touchscreens was so refreshing and how we had rushed to get those touch devices. Meanwhile, there was a separate world that came crashing down with the advent of touch enabled phones. Just like me, I’m sure not many may have thought how touchscreens almost ended the messaging ability of visually impaired. Now, with services moving from phone calls to online (services and apps), it’s getting more difficult.

The Centre for Internet and Society has been invited to serve on the high level committee on electronic accessibility policy constituted by the Government of India.

Acrobatic yoga requires an incredible amount of strength and physical co-ordination.

Students from The Galaxy School created braille numbering in elevators of residential apartments in Rajkot, and are on a mission to demand infrastructural support for India’s blind population.

Their victory is inspirational and reminds us of the limitless power of the human mind. I am given to understand that the BCCI has lent its support to these players in the past and considering a similar initiative this time too.”

The children who developed the arcade are associated with Better By Design that helps schoolchildren develop creative confidence, logical thinking

Travel is about engaging all the senses.

A video of a student giving his disabled classmate a toy has gone viral. But should it have been posted on social media at all?

‘I try not to mourn the life you haven’t had. It’s easy when I remember that you live in a world without sadness, fear, guilt’: the letter you always wanted to write