Bhopal: It is not easy to tell a complaint by listening to the sound of a bike. The fact that you have to identify the complaint without having a look would make it difficult for most of us, isn't it? Well, not for Munne Blind of Bhopal, whose name is synonymous with the Enfield motorcycles in Bhopal.
As his name suggest, Munne is visually impaired since 1972. The fact that he is visually impaired does not deter the mechanic from craving a name for himself as a top class modifier of bikes. His special talent - identifying faults in Enfield Bullets, just by hearing their roar!
However, it has not been a smooth ride for Munne. He lost his vision in 1972, when he was 20-year-old. Then, the only thing he could do was to repair motorcycles. Realising that he has a family to take care of, he took up the job of repairing and modifying Enfield motorbikes. And within no time, his reputation gained fame far and wide.
"My experience and practice has helped me. I tried to do the job to the best of my ability and people come to me from very far off places," says Munne. In what could only come through practice, Munne could tell the condition of an enfield motorbike engine just from the sound it made. He could inform his customers about alignment and structure-related problems just by the bare feel of the machine. Needless to say, he converted this
10:45 PM, Jun 18, 2013
While the laws on crimes against women still need strengthening, activists say no attention is paid to how the upholders of the law, the police, even at senior levels, do their job on the ground. In a Haryana city, just a 100 kms from Delhi, a DSP displayed complete callousness in dealing with a gangrape case where the survivor is a mentally challenged and visually impaired minor girl. ...
09:31 PM, Mar 07, 2013
After months of brainstorming, students of a private school in Delhi have come up with a device for the visually impaired. It is fitted with a sound alarm, voice navigator and an emergency SMS service. ...
09:18 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Washington: People with moderate vision loss can regain the ability to read quickly and comfortably by using digital tablets, a new study has claimed. Researchers found that people with eye diseases that damage their central vision could increase their reading speed by 15 words-per-minute, on average. Using a tablet with a back-lit screen resulted in the fastest reading speeds for all study participants, no matter what their level of visual...
05:39 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Stories of people who inspire, make it believe that there is nothing that is impossible in the world. On this episode, photography gets a whole new meaning. Also, meet an eight-year-old boy who dreams of being the next Sachin Tendulkar. ...
04:14 PM, Nov 04, 2012
London: New cash machines that can 'talk' to customers who have difficulty reading screens have been introduced in the UK. More than three quarters of Barclays cash machines across England and Wales have had audio technology installed so they can 'talk' to customers, the bank said. Blind and partially sighted people can listen to speech output on more than 3,000 of the ATMs by plugging in their earphones to listen...
03:56 AM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai-based photographer, Partho Bhowmick, provides the visually impaired an experience in artistic expression, through the use of camera. The students at his workshops are all visually impaired, and they learn to use their other senses to see. The students show how they use sound to gauge direction and touch to measure the object they are shooting. That's how those who have no sight can see images through...
10:25 AM, Oct 29, 2012
Toronto: Whether it is getting off a bus or reading a menu, a new app aims to make life easier for the blind or visually impaired. Called Georgie, the app for Android devices enables people with little or no sight to accomplish daily activities that could be difficult for them. "The great thing that attracted me to (creating the app) was this notion of gaining confidence, and also having reassurance...
03:23 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Bangalore: Mahantesh GK reaches out to several visually impaired persons like him. The 41-year-old provides livelihood to thousands of the differently abled people and also champions the cause of cricket among the visually impaired. The players, all visually impaired, execute copy-book shots, straight out of the coaching manual. Shekhar Nayak is the captain of the Indian blind cricket team and an ardent fan of Virender Sehwag. But off the cricket...
09:23 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Shillong: Bertha Dkhar's free school in Meghalaya helps hundreds of poor visually impaired students have a vision for the future. Thanks to her invention of introducing the local Khasi language in Braille, hundreds of her students can read and write in their mother tongue. A student Pynskhemlang said, "We don't care whoever takes care of us because our headmistress Bertha is there to look after us." Bertha is more than...
10:05 AM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Seven visually impaired candidates who had in 2008 cleared the IAS examination but were denied induction, have finally received their orders following intervention by the Prime Minister, a representative group for persons with disabilities said on day. The National Platform for the Rights of Disabled (NPRD), that had taken up the cases of the nine such candidates, said that while seven of them have received orders, two were...
01:13 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Dehra Dun: Paving way for the visually impaired to have a decisive role in the country's democratic process, the Election Commission is encouraging use of EVMs having braille signs in Dehradun in Uttarakhand where polling is on to elect the state's third Assembly. Unlike the 2007 elections when only braille EVMs were introduced, these multi-purpose machines can be used both by visually-challenged and normal persons alike. With this, it has...
05:40 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Finally, there is a device that will allow the visually impaired to walk without sticks. Three Indians in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania have developed a belt that senses obstructions and helps the visually impaired walk freely. Visually impaired Wasim can walk without a stick to guide him. The hepatic belt that he is wearing vibrates on sensing human obstruction and prevents him from colliding into anyone....
08:59 AM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: In a cricket crazy nation like India, everyone wants to enjoy the game let alone play it. There is a group of young boys in the capital whose love for the sport hasn't got in the way of their physical disabilities. This young bunch play a 4-team cricket tournament in the Capital. Most of these young cricketers are visually impaired and call the game 'blind cricket'. Mohammad Salim,...
09:16 AM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Shekhar Naik is a man on a mission. His team of visually impaired cricketers are all set for their Pakistan series - the first time since 26/11 that any sports team from India will be playing in Pakistan. And they're very excited. Shekhar Naik Lachma said, "We believe India and Pak are one, we want to prove that." Not only are Naik and his boys confident that they...
08:53 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Pune: As a visually impaired student, sixteen year old Suchita felt there were no vocational institutes where she could realise her dream of becoming a teacher. That's when she heard of Meera Badve's Niwant, a school and vocational institute in Pune. Meera Badve says, "Niwant aims to change how the society thinks that the blind can't go beyond school." A chance visit to a blind school and her teaching experience...
09:04 AM, Oct 05, 2011
CJ Kishan Lal battles to get a loan from a government bank after he was refused on grounds of being visually impaired. ...
09:36 PM, Sep 10, 2011
The star showed up at the music release of
Shadow. ...
01:20 AM, Jul 31, 2009
The initiative aims at being able to help 20 million get eyesight by 2010. ...
06:15 PM, May 31, 2009
Devnar School for Blind makes sure its students don't miss out on Holi. ...
03:10 AM, Mar 13, 2009
