Manjunath V., Srinivas Murthy and Ashok. They are all in their early 20s, undergraduate and visually challenged. They are the three visually challenged people to anchor news bulletins in the history of Indian television. They anchored Kannada news on Doordarshan Kendra’s regional Channel Chandana in Bangalore Jan 4, the second birth centenary of Louis Braille, founder of the Braille script.
when Krishna Narayanan was four years old, his mother showed him an apple and repeated, “Apple… apple…” He knew not only the word ‘apple’, but many, many other complicated words. He wanted to cry out to his mother that he knew all of them, but no words came out of his mouth; just a garbled sound.
At the age of 9, I suffered with Glaucoma in left eye. Unfortunately surgery did not succeed and I lost my left vision. Subsequently at the age of 13, vision in my right eye also started deteriorating due to retinal detachment. By the time I was in standard 8, I lost vision in both eyes.
A listing of famous and well known sight impaired people who were blind and blind in one eye including actors and singers. Visually impaired and blind people have devised a number of techniques that allow them to complete daily activities using their remaining senses.
Getting a job that you really like is not a simple task for anyone. Then imagine what it is like for a visually impaired person? There are so many stereotypes about visually impaired people among the sighted community.
This is the story about Suprita Gupta, a young visually impaired girl from Jarkhand. Suprita left her home town and her family and came all the way to Bangalore to start living her own independent life. Suprita works at IBM and …but wait, let’s just listen to the story told by Suprita herself.
This is the story of Swarnalakshmi, a blind lady, the only daughter in her traditional Indian family. Swarnalakshmi lost her vision all of a sudden due to brain tumor 15 days before she was supposed to get married. In her story she tells about what helped her to restart her life and become an independent lady with a golden glow in her eyes.
This is a story of Vishal Jain, a visually impaired MBA student at IIM Lucknow, India. Coming from a small town in Karnataka state, Vishal had to stop his studies after 9th standrd due to deterioration of his eyesight and lack of awareness to handle it. However his inner urge to learn brought Vishal to Bangalore to learn to operate the computer and continue his studies.
I admire a lot of things about Prateek – his pro-activity, entrepreneurial spirit, professionalism and many other qualities! .Today Prateek’s story will start making impact on hundreds of people. But more than this, I believe that from now on we will start receiving dozens, hundreds and, who knows, thousands of stories of people all over the World! So let’s enjoy Prateek’s story! You can also find an audio version below the video.
This is beautiful.. just more proof that you can do anything you set your mind to… NOTHING and nobody can stop you but yourself.. AMAZING!! Are these people serious who could not feel the love and passion behind this dance let alone appreciate it!