i have found braille on atms since long time back, but i think this is catching up more as the seet numbers in Vande Bharat Express are labled on handles at the back of the ile side seats but this is a good move. there are lots of talking micro ovens and other things in other countries hope all of this comes to india.
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 10:16 PM Yamuna Jivana Dasa <ykhan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi friends, > > > > A few weeks back, my wife bought some shower gel on Amazon. Seemed like an > ordinary event and I thought nothing of it. > > When the package arrived, my eldest son excitedly brought it to me. “Baba! > Baba! Come check this out” he exclaimed as he put the bottle into my hands. > > Not thinking much of it I asked “What is this?” without much examination > of the bottle. “sShower gel” he said, still excited. “Feel the bottle”. > > Somehow I still didn’t catch on, as I fingered lamely around the bottle’s > edges. “Ok Nice”, I said. “Go pack this away now”. > > “No! Feel the face of the bottle. Feel properly.” He insisted. I now knew > something was up so with more alertness I carefully examined the face of > the bottle. > > Before I could even figure it out he exclaimed “Braille!” And he was > right. Not just that, but both the front face and on the rear face had a > whole lot of braille. > > On the front face across the short side was written in short single lines > as follows: > > Fiama > > Shower > > Gel > > > > On the opposite face, this time along the length of the bottle was > written, again in beautiful braille letters along the length of the bottle > this time: > > Patchouli > > And macadamia > > > > It was uncontracted, no capitalization of letters, the dots felt somewhat > faded on the plastic label, but still it was a pleasant surprise indeed. > Coming to India I wasn’t sure I would ever see beautiful braille again, > here in the village of Vrindavana. > > > > Just for this fact I would like to keep buying this product, to simply say > thank you for remembering us on the fringes of society, while most others > see us as nothing more than disabled people that might at least be able to > sing for some handout. We now bought 4 bottles in total for the moment, and > every morning I can’t help running my fingers over the braille when I take > some out to shower my body. It just feels so warmly familiar. > > > > Just wanted to share this small yet heart-warming story of my own personal > experience. > > > > With kind regards, > > Yamuna Jivana dasa > > -- > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "AccessIndia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/005201da940b%246f87e8e0%244e97baa0%24%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/005201da940b%246f87e8e0%244e97baa0%24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- to listen to the Blind Android Users Podcast visit. www.blindandroidusers.com To join our mailing list, send those “join requests” to: blindandroidusers+subscr...@groups.io You may follow us on twitter using our handle: @BlindDroidUsers https://twitter.com/@BlindDroidUsers We do have a Telegram group that you can join and share stories or whatever with our members at: https://t.me/ANATAD -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAPeFyi_-Wew3Gbsv9yc7hZPH8NhdtJbTHp0q91rCNUKPXxFK9Q%40mail.gmail.com.
