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TBI THIS-Ability: Testing the Waters in Accessibility Technology

Continuing our series on disability and the strides made in this field, we visit the office of one of India’s leading accessibility technology firms, and meet their visually impaired tester Priti Rohra, who decided to break away from the conventional jobs offered to persons with disability in India and try something new!

March 29, 2013 / Comments Off / Read More

TBI THIS-Ability: Narayan Ramakrishnan – That surefooted painter of Mumbai

February 27, 2013 No Comment

Remember that greeting card which said ‘painted by a foot artist?’ Malay Desai from Trinayani meets Ramakrishnan, the most famous one of them all, and discover there is much more to their lives than that.

TBI This-Ability: Uncle Sam’s Battles For The Visually Impaired

January 17, 2013 No Comment

Dr Sam Taraporevala of Mumbai’s XRCVC, one of the country’s finest resource centres for the blind, tells us of his recent victories and his continuing battles for accessibility.

TBI This-Ability: Rahul Cherian – Working Towards An Inclusive Planet

November 27, 2012 No Comment

There are some who crib about laws and then some who help make them better. Rahul Cherian belongs to the latter. A partner at a Chennai-based law firm specialising in intellectual property rights and other laws, he is also the force behind Inclusive Planet, a centre that connects the disability sector with the government and [...]

Barfi! – Reviewed By Experts In The Field Of Disability

October 5, 2012 No Comment

Barfi! is a laudable effort on the part of film-maker Anurag Basu for a sensitive portrayal of two forms of disability. However, when we see the film with disabled persons and disability experts, there is a lot that is not accurately depicted and a lot more to be learned, as we find out here.

TBI THIS-Ability: Pradip Sinha – Ready To Touch A New High

August 8, 2012 No Comment

Malay Desai visits the Helen Keller Institute for Deaf and Deafblind in Mumbai, and meets one of the students. Pradip joined the centre at the age of 12, a scared and confused child. Today, at the age of 33, he is confident of making his life decisions and is looking forward to starting his own [...]

TBI This-Ability: Nilesh Singit – Advocating A Bold Attitude

June 13, 2012 No Comment

Continuing our series on remarkable individuals who have converted their Disability to “This-Ability” (read the first post here), today we feature Nilesh Singit who is a Disability Studies expert, trainer, researcher and rights advocate. Though he has celebral palsy himself, he wears his condition lightly, and is clear that People with Disability deserve better treatment, [...]

TBI This-Ability: The Blind Superhero of Indian Chess

May 31, 2012 No Comment

It gives us great pleasure to kick-start a series on remarkable personalities who have one thing in common – they have converted their ‘disability’ into ‘this-ability’. We have featured many such inspiring individuals before on The Better India, but we now wish to make a more concerted effort in this direction. In association with Trinayani, [...]