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.
The order was a response to a petition by Sahil Arsh, an MBBS student suffering from a 40% visual impairment and denied a transfer to a Delhi college despite deteriorating health conditions due to high temperatures in Barmer.
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.
The proposed changes reveal a misguided belief that the primary issue is the prevalence of fake certificates rather than the systemic barriers PwDs face.
The twins, who had applied to have their names included as separate persons in the electoral rolls soon after turning 18 last year, were hailed as ‘icons of voters with disabilities’.
The problem, dear Ralph Lauren, is not your use of the jhumka, but your dismissal of its history. The list of stolen items is too vast to fight, but we haven't given up on acknowledgement.
In a first during his tenure as High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah addressed JOCAP consisting of tri-forces officers, as New Delhi & Dhaka step up normalisation efforts.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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