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Topic: disability

Win for UPSC aspirants with learning disabilities as Delhi HC upholds CAT order directing 0.5% quota

A two-judge bench rejected Centre's appeal, setting an 8-week deadline to comply with CAT’s 2025 direction, which has not been implemented for over four months.

Who gets to be ‘normal’ at the workplace? Ask people with disabilities

The highlight of the career event, led by Kirori Mal College's Centre for Disability Research and Training, was how the idea of 'normal' often makes people feel disabled.

After 6 requests for transfer & letter to PMO, railway employee’s 9-yr-old paraplegic son moves court

Suffering from multiple congenital disorders, Sandarbh Gupta has submitted a plea in Uttarakhand High Court that his father, in Lucknow since 2020, be posted near Dehradun.

SubscriberWrites: ‘Divyang’ and Politics of Naming —Rethinking Language for Persons with Disabilities

Calling persons with disabilities ‘Divyang’ may sound noble, but critics say it romanticizes struggle, masks barriers, and risks replacing real rights with token symbolism.

Rador Pakhi shows what few films dare to—unvarnished view of life with a genetic disease

Rador Pakhi is based on the life of award-winning Assamese author Sarmistha Pritam. But the director says it's not a biopic.

Invisible in Pride & policy, queer people with disabilities live at the margins twice over

Stigmatised by society & often excluded from LGBTQ spaces, queer people with disability struggle with a host of problems from inaccessibility & violence to lack of legal protection.

Reasonable accommodation not charity but fundamental right, SC rules, grants MBBS seat to disabled aspirant

Top court further instructs National Medical Commission to revise its guidelines for ensuring that no deserving candidate in PwBD category is denied admission to MBBS course.

DPDP Act offers no special protection for disability data. It leaves PwDs vulnerable

The crux of the problem lies in equating disability with the inability to consent. This is an erroneous assumption.

How NMC’s ‘hands intact’ rule has left the fate of an MBBS aspirant with rare condition in limbo

Delhi's Kabir is in the midst of a legal battle to realise his dream of studying medicine. After SC's order, he is set to undergo fresh assessment of his disabilities—for the third time.

‘Ziddi Girls’ gets disability right—a shift from inspiration porn and insult comedy

Ziddi Girls is not a show about disability. It is a coming-of-age show. The audience isn't even told why Wallika is in a wheelchair. It’s perfect.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.