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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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‘One Morning I Was Fine; By Evening I Was Paralysed’: My Life With Multiple...
“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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Meet The Team Behind One-Of-A-Kind Café That Employs Only Those With...
It has been seven odd years since Mumbai-based Aarti Nagarkar (35) moved back to India from the States, but ask her about her favourite things in life, and she says without hesitation, “Chipotle...
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‘No Doctor Could Diagnose My Disorder; Was 9 When I Started Pain Killers’
On his Ted Talk, Sayomdeb Mukherjee from Kolkata recalls an incident when he wanted to jump off Sikkim’s highest point but could not due to his condition. He felt worthless as he ‘couldn’t even die on...
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Teacher’s Method Helps 6000 Kids With Learning Disabilities Become Doctors,...
We all remember that one teacher from school who taught a subject so well that they helped us master it. Dr Bhuvana Vasudevan from Puducherry has a similar special place among some of her students. She...
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‘Bedridden Since I was 6, Here’s How I Helped Rescue 300 Stray Animals Across...
Varanasi based Shweta Maurya has lost count on the number of bone breakages she has had over 35 years of her life and is uncertain how long before her body gives up. Shweta was born with a genetic and...
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5 Times Cheaper Than Imports, IIT-M’s ‘Kadam’ Helps Amputees Walk Comfortably
On 8 April 2022, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras launched India’s first indigenously developed Polycentric Prosthetic Knee called ‘Kadam’ (meaning ‘step’ in Hindi). To improve...
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After an accident in 2010, Chennai-born Naidhroven, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, was left with no choice but to start using a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The MBA student, who had...
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Students With Disabilities Show How a Teacher’s 30-Year Crusade Changed Their...
Pooja Zaveri’s future looked bleak when she was born with hearing impairments in an underprivileged section of society. But the now 18-year-old Pooja is gearing up to appear for the SSC exam. A Karate...
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