Given the rapacious human resource (HR) practises of most profit-first newspapers, magazines and TV stations (which are otherwise lecturing the world on corporate social responsibility), there are few handicapped people on their rolls and even fewer facilities for them. Bangalore’s oldest English newspaper, Deccan Herald, is an outstanding exception. On Louis Braille‘s birthday, L. Subramani…
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When the blind told the world what it was up to
*** Chandana, the Kannada television channel of India’s State-owned national broadcaster, Doordarshan, created history of sorts by getting three visually challenged persons to anchor news bulletins through the day on Sunday, 4 January 2009. The heart-warming move was made to mark the bi-centenary of Louis Braille, the man who invented the script for the blind,…
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