One wonders what to write when asked to write about one self. (At least I believe so!) I thought my life is so simple, so normal and so naïve like any other girl. Until I came to know suddenly that I am physically challenged.
The government has announced changes in the issuance of disability certificates. An official release said for hearing and visually impaired persons it would be issued on Mondays; for those Locomotor handicapped/cerebral palsy/leprosy cured it would be on Tuesdays and for mental retardation, multiple disability, autism and mentally ill persons it would be on Friday.
Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore. You may ask, what’s so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing out from various IITs and joining big companies like Google?
Abul Hussain is not like other ordinary persons. What makes him extraordinary is his determination, commitment, strength of mind and his sense of dignity. Abul Hussain never stood on his feet, never walked on this earth but he has made hundreds of people of Assam to stand on their feet by making them empowered through income generation.
Despite amputation of one leg, Sudha Chandran has established herself in the film line and got a reputation as an ace dancer and actor. She was born into a Tamil family in 1964. Her father K.D. Chandran was an employee of the American Centre in Mumbai. Mrs. Thangam and Sudha’s father were lovers of art hence since childhood; Sudha was exposed to a rich cultural heritage. At the age of three, she started dancing on her own and it was then that her family decided to provide her formal education in dance.
Patients with locomotor / orthopaedic disabilities due to various ailments like poliomyelitis, Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Deformities, Leprosy, Burn contracture, Paraplegia, Hemiplegia etc.