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TBI Blogs: How My Best Friend with Cerebral Palsy Helped Me See the World...
A young girl's story of her best friend demonstrates that, once we look past physical or intellectual disabilities, we're not that different after all. I vividly remember the day we got transferred to...
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TBI Blogs: 7 Simple Ways Monuments & Tourist Spots Can Be Made More...
Travel is an essential element of the human experience, one that blind and visually impaired individuals have to often miss out of due to inaccessible monuments and tourist spots. Here's how that can...
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TBI Blogs: 4 Ways Media Can Become More Disabled-Friendly and Help Change...
Whatever we see in the media is a reflection of our society’s perceptions. Inclusive content will ensure that inclusion becomes a reality for people with any impairment or disability. Often we hear...
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Meet the Paralympians: The 19 Real-Life Heroes Carrying a Nation’s Hopes on...
Para-sports (short for 'parallel sports') have allowed hundreds of people with disabilities to take control of their lives, giving them economic freedom and respect in a society that generally looks...
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How One Bangalore Based Organisation Is Working Tirelessly to Provide Blind...
While there are many schools for educating blind people, very few equip them with the skills that would enable them to contribute to the economy of the country. Mitra Jyothi, a 26-year-old organisation...
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TBI Blogs: Technology Is Helping Disabled Women in India Stand up Against...
From domestic violence and health, to their rights and government schemes, the Azadi Ki Udaan app is helping disabled women in the country take their first steps towards an independent existence. From...
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This Double Arm Amputee Drives So Well With His Legs, He Could Not Be Denied...
“I make the most of whatever I have,” that’s what Vikram Agnihotri, the man who has no arms yet drives with his legs, says! Vikram has lived by this philosophy since the age of seven when he lost both...
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This Organisation Has Provided Therapy to More Than 2,500 Children with...
Bal Asha Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that was founded in October 1985 in Mumbai. For the past 31 years, it has rehabilitated more than 1,500 destitute/abandoned children from various parts...
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This Organisation Is Supporting Disabled Children with a Special School,...
Aaina is an organisation based out of Bhubaneswar that was founded in 1998 to support socially ostracized members of the society and provide them with a space to address their grievances. Sneha Mishra...
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One Partially Deaf Man Used Photography to Bring Cheer to 500 Children with...
Rajen Nair is a freelance photojournalist living in Mumbai. He has a partial hearing disability. Rajen has conducted photography workshops for about 700 children, including cancer patients and children...
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They’re not surgeons. But this father-son duo helped 100 blind women in...
This is a story of how a father-son duo used crowd funding to secure cataract surgeries for restoring the vision of 100 blind women in rural Telangana. As a school student Sathvik Reddy did not know...
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How Ace Shooter Siddhartha Babu Is Making National Records without a Coach or...
Para rifle-shooter Sidhartha Babu speaks to The Better India about what it takes to become a national record-holding shooting champion. Sidhartha Babu talks about shooting the way Sun Tzu would speak...
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Here’s Why Milkha Singh Is Backing the Country’s First Wheelchair Basketball...
Madhavi Latha, founder of the Wheelchair Basketball Federation of India talks to The Better India about using team sports to build the self-esteem of people with disabilities. The Indian contingent at...
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This Vet Is Putting Amputee Animals Back on Their Feet with Prosthetic Limbs....
Dr. Tapesh Mathur's 'Krishna Limb' is helping disabled animals walk and run. He is a pioneer in India in making prosthetics for animals. Dr. Tapesh Mathur, a veterinarian who serves at the Rural...
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Story of Grit & Grace: Haben Girma, First Deaf-Blind Student to Graduate from...
From being the first deaf-blind student to graduate from Harvard Law School to becoming an internationally acclaimed accessibility leader and lawyer, Haben Girma’s journey exemplifies grit, grace, and...
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Meet the Brilliant Foot Painter Who Was Born without Arms but Still Went on...
From combing her own hair to dressing up for college to working on beautiful paintings – this Raipur teenager does whatever she needs to with her toes! Born without arms, there is nothing else that...
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TBI Blogs: 6 Ways India Can Help Almost 70 Million of Its Disabled Citizens...
With an estimated disabled population of 70 million, India unfortunately lags far behind in terms of enabling travel for this sizeable chunk of its population. Here are six ways our country can improve...
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For This Fingerless Cobbler at a Delhi Street Corner, Every Day of Work Is an...
Dinesh Das, a humble cobbler who has been working from the same spot in Delhi for almost two decades despite losing his fingers, cuts an inspiring figure. New Delhi resident Dinesh Das, 39, remembers...
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TBI Blogs: This Visually Challenged Lawyer Dreams of Becoming a Judge – and...
Despite being instrumental in helping the cause of the disabled in the country, the Indian judiciary has been unable to remove discrimination from within the legal profession. Now, with a landmark...
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TBI Blogs: Autistic Individuals Often Find Verbal Communication Difficult....
Many people on the Autism Spectrum are unable to communicate using speech and sound the way most other people do. However, this disability does not necessarily have to limit them from communicating...
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