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Hyderabad Woman Helps 1800 People with Disabilities Get Jobs, Despite the...
Hyderabad-based Lulu Behmanshah was barely a year old when she was abandoned on the railway tracks. A social worker brought her to an orphanage, with a bad injury that would eventually lead to...
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IIT-M Designs Customisable Wheelchair that Transforms into an Electric Vehicle
“In India how often do you see a wheelchair user at a school, at an office, at a shop, or a theatre? 95% of all wheelchairs sold in the country are based on a one-size-fits-all concept, and that...
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3 Ways Teachers are Helping Hearing Impaired Kids Attend Online Classes
With the pandemic in force, students and teachers have realigned themselves with online classes. But what about students with hearing impairment? How have they been coping during these tough times?...
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I Was Called ‘Mentally Retarded’. Here’s How I Went on to Inspire Dr APJ Kalam
An accomplished author. An experienced banker. A pioneering Certified Documentary Credit Specialist. A sought after motivational speaker. Many achievements, one name – Siddharth Jayakumar from...
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How Odisha’s Ganjam Went From Being COVID-19 Hotspot To a Model District
As new COVID-19 infections tear across India, setting new daily records for active cases and deaths that epidemiologists say were utterly predictable and disastrous. However, the virus was largely...
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NID Alumni’s Device Lets Visually-Impaired Identify Currency Notes, Sans Braille
In 2016, the government of India announced demonetisation, which made Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes invalid. While many struggled to get old notes exchanged for the newly introduced notes – there was...
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‘She Is the Biggest Gift’: Couple With Dwarfism on How They Met in a Unique Cafe
It’s not February – the month that celebrates love, yet but this love story of Bhairappa and Roopa, employees at Bengaluru’s Mitti Café, will leave you feeling all warm and mushy. It’s just what the...
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Amputee Cyclist Helps Rehabilitate Over 1000 BSF, CRPF Jawans Injured in Line...
We caught up with Aditya Mehta, an above-knee amputee and India’s first para cyclist, at his hotel room in Chandigarh earlier this week after a gruelling 160 km ride the day before. (Image above: Para...
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Sold When 2 Months Old, ‘Mr Delhi’ Body Builder is The Inspiration We Need in...
“I was all of two months old when my parents decided that selling me off for Rs 20,000 was the most viable solution,” says Tajinder Mehra (26), a resident of Delhi. Born with only one hand, Tajinder, a...
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Hyderabad Doc Who Returned From US to Help the Blind Wins $3 Million Global...
LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), a World Health Organisation (WHO) collaborating centre for the prevention of blindness, is a comprehensive eye health facility headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra...
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After Losing Vision, IITian Develops Tool to Help Visually Impaired Use...
Nearly 22 years ago, Pramit Bhargava was prescribed a drug for a certain rheumatic disorder while working at Hindustan Unilever, India’s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) company. Upon...
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My Journey of Living with Cerebral Palsy, Studying at IIM & Joining Civil...
As she awaited the results for her civil service examination, Dr Surya Lakshmi Chellapilla’s heart thumped loudly inside her chest. While she was confident of her performance in the Mains and...
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India’s First Mobile Therapy Van Has Helped 80 Diff-Abled Kids Access Therapy...
In Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, there are close to 1,700 children with developmental disabilities, begins Dr Shruti More, the founder of Samphia Foundation. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent...
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At 21, I Lost My Legs in the Mumbai Blasts. But My Story Isn’t Sad: CA Chirag
It seemed like a regular Tuesday when 21-year-old Chirag Chauhan from Mumbai left office early to make it home before twilight. But somewhere between Andheri and Santacruz at around 6.20 pm, his life...
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Polio Couldn’t Stop Me From Wrestling At National Level: Kolhapur Gym Owner
Till he turned 15, Kiran Bavadekar, who suffers from Polio, dragged his legs to move around. Then, at 20, he became a national bodybuilding champion and a professional wrestler in the early 1980s. And...
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Two Mumbai Doctors Help 1300 Underprivileged Kids Hear Again, For Free
By 2050, 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will have some degree of hearing loss, as per a recent World Health Organization’s (WHO) report. Of them, nearly 700 million will need...
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People With Autism, Downs Syndrome Find Jobs Despite the Pandemic, Thanks to...
Just as India had started clawing its way back from the COVID-19 lockdown and the dramatic effects of the pandemic, another wave seems to have entered the picture. Coronavirus cases are on the rise...
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Rejected From 6 Jobs, How I Started My Own Firm While Living With Cerebral Palsy
Kolkata-based Sumit Agarwal began questioning his reality while sitting in the classroom among his peers. He’d often wonder why people avoided him, and why he couldn’t engage in sports such as...
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Inspired by Dr Kalam, Hyd Innovator Builds Lightweight Bionic Hand At 1/10...
Indians with upper limb amputations have found hope in KalArm, a fully functional, 3-D printed, lightweight, EMG-sensor embedded and affordable bionic hand developed by Makers Hive, a Hyderabad-based...
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Lost a Leg, Won Hearts at India’s Got Talent, Shed 20 Kgs: This Dancer is...
DDressed in a bright pink top and a short green ghagra(skirt), Subhreet Kaur Ghumman set the stage of India’s Got Talent (IGT) on fire in 2014. A resident of Chandigarh, Subhreet performed on ‘Chikni...
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