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  • Watch: Corporate effort brings tactile murals, braille-inspired art to Jaipur school for the blind

    Watch: Corporate effort brings tactile murals, braille-inspired art to Jaipur school for the blind

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 12, 2024 · 11:35 am
  • Watch: Blind neurodiverse teen plays complicated Chopin piece on the piano, stuns show judges

    Watch: Blind neurodiverse teen plays complicated Chopin piece on the piano, stuns show judges

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 17, 2023 · 12:38 pm
  • A blind writer recalls giving birth: ‘I worried that the nurse wouldn’t let me take my baby home’

    A blind writer recalls giving birth: ‘I worried that the nurse wouldn’t let me take my baby home’

    Kristen Witucki
    · Dec 19, 2022 · 08:30 am
  • When India’s mass eye camps leave people blind

    When India’s mass eye camps leave people blind

    Tabassum Barnagarwala
    · Feb 23, 2022 · 06:30 am
  • Watch: Mountain climber from China becomes first blind person in Asia to scale Mount Everest

    Watch: Mountain climber from China becomes first blind person in Asia to scale Mount Everest

    Scroll Staff
    · May 31, 2021 · 03:10 pm
  • Concert in the Dark: Watch artistes perform blindfolded in fundraiser for the visually challenged

    Concert in the Dark: Watch artistes perform blindfolded in fundraiser for the visually challenged

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 23, 2021 · 10:14 am
  • Ved Mehta (1934-2020) on how life changed after losing his vision at the age of three-and-a-half

    Ved Mehta (1934-2020) on how life changed after losing his vision at the age of three-and-a-half

    Ved Mehta
    · Jan 12, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • This Tamil Nadu hospital uses an assembly-line system to perform 2,50,000 eye surgeries every year

    This Tamil Nadu hospital uses an assembly-line system to perform 2,50,000 eye surgeries every year

    Maria Thomas, qz.com
    · Oct 07, 2017 · 02:30 pm
  • ‘I’m blind and this is how I cook’: Watch  MasterChef winner Christine Ha at her best

    ‘I’m blind and this is how I cook’: Watch MasterChef winner Christine Ha at her best

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 10, 2017 · 10:00 am
  • Watch: How visually challenged Amit Patel and his dog filmed daily abuse on London streets

    Watch: How visually challenged Amit Patel and his dog filmed daily abuse on London streets

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 08, 2017 · 10:00 am
  • Do blind people hear better than others? Watch this feisty man bust some common myths

    Do blind people hear better than others? Watch this feisty man bust some common myths

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 12, 2016 · 09:00 pm