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Once Forced Out Of Schools, He Helped India Get A Pathbreaking Act For The...
Arman Ali was advised to start going to the gym to maintain his health in 2011. He chose a centre in Guwahati under the impression that he could access it independently in a wheelchair without...
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Unable To Walk Herself, Woman Grows Organic Rice & Fruits For 30 Special Kids
wheelchair user D Indra was barely four when she was admitted to a shelter home for children with mental and physical disabilities. She was allowed to visit her parents and elder sister only during the...
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‘I Became a Yoga Teacher After Losing Both Legs’: Inspiring Double Amputee...
Arpita Roy vividly remembers the evening of 22 April 2006. Sitting behind a friend on a bike, she was mentally making a list of items she would buy from Kolkata. The city of joy was a 30 kilometer ride...
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‘Proud of Avani’s Victory’: India’s First Woman Para-Shooter Who Paved the Path
India once again made history at the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics, thanks to shooter Avani Lekhara who clinched a gold in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 event on 30 August. The 19-year-old from...
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Himani Bundela: The Crorepati Who Won India’s Heart & Wants to Coach Divyang...
Himani Bundela, a visually impaired math teacher based in Agra, has become the first crorepati of Kaun Banega Crorepati’s Season 13. After being selected from the hot seat by the show’s host Amitabh...
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51 Matches & 1862 Runs: The Inspiring Life of India’s First Deaf & Mute...
He was barely five when he started playing cricket at Pune’s Deccan Gymkhana and by 18, he was playing domestic first-class cricket championship, aka the Ranji trophy. Leaping ahead in his cricketing...
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Woman Launches Cab & Caretaker Service With Ex-Servicemen, Caters to Over 2000
“Once an uncle called me to his house to thank me for the disabled-friendly cab services that he had taken for his daughter who turned out to be my former classmate. She broke down while describing how...
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Why This Man Decided To Build A 10-Acre Township Dedicated To People With Autism
Dr A K Kundra first learnt about autism in 1984, when he was teaching English in Andhra Pradesh’s Bolarum district. The teaching staff here had identified one child to be “different”. At first, Dr...
View ArticleUsing Rs 80000 of Her Savings, Woman Brings Education to Disabled Tamil Nadu...
Suganya Kandasamy, from Triplicane in Tamil Nadu, was only a child when her father discouraged her from pursuing higher education. “My father was a fisherman and had no financial means to fund my...
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Do You Know About ‘Invisible Disabilities’? 5 Ways to Make Your Workplace...
While not all disabilities are visible to us, such as someone using a wheelchair, wearing a hearing aid or using an assistive device, an ‘invisible disability’ is an umbrella term that captures an...
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Shunned By Society, Disabled Woman Used Her Savings To Ensure Others Don’t...
When Junagadh-based Neelam Parmar was born with a severe disability that left 80% of her body paralysed, she and her family found themselves on the fringes of society. Even her relatives would chime in...
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Cerebral Palsy to Speech Issues: Her Portal Helps 17800 With Disabilities...
Hyderabad-based Gujjari Priyanka was born with a locomotor disability to an underprivileged family. Her cerebral palsy worsened when she suffered an epileptic episode when she was nine months old. “I...
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Paralysed In 1 Day, How I Rebuilt My Life After My Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis
“On the morning of 26 October 2009, I woke up feeling absolutely normal. In fact, the next day was my wedding anniversary, so it would even be right to say that I was in a rather buoyant mood. By...
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Son’s Speech Delay Inspires Engineer To Turn Special Ed Teacher, Educate 50...
Shortly after her son’s birth in 2010, Hyderabad-based Sai Sowjanya Vasa’s life was turned upside down when he was diagnosed with speech delay. What followed were a harrowing next few years as she...
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IIT-M’s Wearable Devices Helps Disabled Persons Communicate Freely For Rs 5000
A day before the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (CREATE) — a multidisciplinary translational research and educational...
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Daughter’s Down Syndrome Made Dad Ensure That Disabled Kids ‘Always Have a Home’
It’s an early Tuesday morning in Wadala, Jalandhar. All seems to be quiet. But in a few hours, at 10 am to be precise, this silence will be replaced with the sound of laughter and chatter of 30 young...
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One Initiative Brings Smiles to Thousands of Kids With Cleft, Empowers 100s...
This article has been published in partnership with Smile Train India. Ashim Garg recalls that day in 2009 when his classmates from an elite school in New Delhi mocked his ability to speak. While he...
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Born Without Lower Limbs, I Always Dreamt of Riding to Ladakh; Here’s a Look...
It was Ahmedabad-based Shivam Porwal’s dream to experience Ladakh on a bike. While this is a dream that many have, for Shivam to see it through was not an easy feat. Born with Phocomelia syndrome, it...
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Mechanic Built ‘Mini Jeep’ Customised for Disabled Friend, Now Sells Across...
When Babbar Singh, an automobile mechanic, innovated a mini jeep for his friend Shakti Kumar, he thought it would be a one-time thing. The Punjab native built the vehicle, which looks like a jeep but...
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Entrepreneur at 16, Disabled Hero Brings Quality Education to Smaller Indian...
At just 9 months, Ajay Gupta was diagnosed with polio, which left both his legs and left hand paralysed. Today, he has a 70 per cent locomotive disability. He faced many setbacks in his childhood, the...
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