Re: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals

2016-10-18 Thread Boopathi P
Most of the time the sense of touching is perceived by sighted people as nuisance and it is seen as something out of the normalcy. It comes out of lack of understanding about visually impaired. On 10/18/16, Boopathi P wrote: > Disability access ‘worsens’ in Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals > On Octob

Re: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals

2016-10-18 Thread avinash shahi
t: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 1:01 PM >>> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >>> concerning >>> the disabled. >>> Subject: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s >>> Durga >>> Puja pandals >&

Re: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals

2016-10-18 Thread Himanshu Sahu
ng accessibility and issues concerning >> the disabled. >> Subject: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s >> Durga >> Puja pandals >> >> Disability access ‘worsens’ in Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals >> On October 9, when the city was soaki

Re: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals

2016-10-18 Thread avinash shahi
1 PM > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled. > Subject: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s Durga > Puja pandals > > Disability access ‘worsens’ in Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals > On October 9, when

Re: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals

2016-10-18 Thread Asudani, Rajesh
: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 1:01 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: [AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals Disability access ‘worsens’ in Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals On October 9, when the city

[AI] a news article from The Hindu on inaccessable Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals

2016-10-18 Thread Boopathi P
Disability access ‘worsens’ in Kolkata’s Durga Puja pandals On October 9, when the city was soaking up the Durga Puja festivities, Rubia Chatterjee, national gold medallist para athlete, decided to go pandal hopping with other para athletes. She was shocked to find that she could not enter many of