Category: Community support

  • Christmas greetings

    Dear friends those who celebrate Christmas, wishing you a marry Christmas. This is a festival of love and known to be festival to share gifts. It’s great to see many colleagues at work are celebrating secret Santa and sharing gifts to one another. May you all be blessed and have a fabulous festival. This will…

  • Experience with AirAsia

    Recently we travelled from Hyderabad to Bangalore with AirAsia and has mixed sense of experience. Check-in was smooth; when we have asked if flight is on schedule, then personnel has mentioned that flight is delayed by 20 minutes. We were given an escort to the gate. There was no announcement even after said 20 minutes;…

  • Open letter to Ministry of Railways, Government of India

    Dear Minister and concerned personnel of Ministry of Railways, Government of India. Subject: Lack of timely information to passengers Recently I have made a reservation on Train Number 17643 to travel from Chennai to Tanuku. I have reached Tambaram Railway station almost one and half hour before. Checked on National Train Enquiry System (NTES) to…

  • Nominations are open for NCPEDP MphasiS Universal Design Awards 2018

    Are you a person with disability and have done incredible work in the area of accessibility and universal design? Are you a working professional working towards the cause of building an inclusive society? Are you an organization believes in universal design and working towards it? Are you someone developed a product or service that works…

  • An appeal from Dr. Kiran for the benefit of universe

    Appeal from Dr.Kiran ( +91 8019125547) //sumtrupthi.in To GROUP CHANT “Shree Ganapathi Atharva Seersha Maha Mantra By anyone with Sradha & Bhakti. At their OWN CONVENIENCE, daily, preferably before sunrise (06-30 a m), SITTING at a fixed place ( ASANA), facing EAST ( Sun God ), ONCE, TWICE or more. Starting from 11th May, 2018…

  • Congratulations to all those students who have graduated from 10th Class – here is an advice for you all!

    What a relief for those students and parents waiting anxiously for results of 10th Class; results are out recently and celebrations are happening everywhere. Congratulations to all those who have passed. If you are someone reading this post and not passed, not to worry, you haven’t lost anything. I don’t say failure is pathway to…

  • Open Challenge to all the airlines; specially those who discriminate

    Inspite having regulation from Director General of Civil Aviation, Government of India, air carriers display a non-discrimination statement on their websites, we still see discrimination happening on the ground. Very recently, a doctor by profession and a person with disability was asked for a “fit to fly certificate” by Jet Airways customer service. Here is…

  • Easy way of Re-verification of BSNL Mobile connection using Aadhar with just a phone call

    As we are aware re-verification of mobile SIM subscription by linking Aadhar is mandatory and needs to be done by 31st March, 2018. Here is a easy method for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) subscribers. One has to just dial 14516 from BSNL mobile phone and follow the instructions. It will ask you to choose…

  • Visually impaired, will travel!

    This is a guest post by Divya and Ritu of BAT Travels The visually impaired also need a holiday. A holiday that treats them like equals. Disability tour or disability travel may not be the answer. Inclusive travel, most likely, may be. The lesser conversation we have about how different the disabled people are from…

  • Chandamama – wealth of stories are now online

    In my childhood or actually during my young age and given a choice, even now, I love the story books like Chandamama, Balamitra, Balabharathi etc., Chandamama has started in 1947; it was a monthly magazine that comes with inspiring stories, comics, series of Vikramarka, Bethala stories. There used to be a section having puzzles, quiz…