Category: General

  • Election results 2019 – morning update: Loksabha & Andhra Pradesh

    Today is the day that many of us are awaiting for. Verdict is given. As of writing of this post, YSRCP (YS Rajsekhar Reddy Congress Party) is leading in Andhra Pradesh with leading at 32 constituencies followed by Telugu Desam Party with leading at 6 places. It’s too early to decide who would win the…

  • A great actor and simple man Shri. Rallapalli is no more…

    Shri. Rallapalli Narasimha Rao (73 years) – a famous actor in Telugu industry and a simple man has passed away last evening at Hyderabad. He has made about 850+ movies. Thanks to my brother, Subrahmanyam, I have had a fortunate moment to spend a couple of hours with Shri. Rallapalli in the year 2015. May…

  • Happy 2019

    Dear Readers, Wishing you all a very happy 2019. May this new year brings a lot of love, happiness, success and joy! Through this new year, let’s live with more accountability and responsibility. May us all contribute to make our community a better place to live. Let’s remember that we are creators of future of…

  • 2019 Road ahead…

    Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous 2019. As always, I do hope new year brings in a lot of hope, good luck and success. In 2019, I’m looking forward to co-host Bangalore Accessibility and Inclusive Design meet-up on every alternate month. Also, expand meet-up to at least one more place in India. Those…

  • Smart House for People with Disabilities

    This is a guest post by Melisa Merzitt Smart house for people with disabilities Many new Internet of things applications are comfort and safety oriented. They make it to where a user is able to regulate temperature and lightening in a room, manage door locks, activate signalization system, etc. With the assumption that, these applications…

  • “.new” feature from Google

    Most of us uses Google applications such as Google docs, Google sheets, Google slides and they are far more easier to work and collaborate with others using the cloud.  So far, if we want to create a new document, new sheet or new slide deck; we need to open respective application and choose “new”. With…

  • Few ways that we can contribute to make our community a better place to live

    If we think we have lot of problems around us in the community, let’s take a step back and think if we are responsible for it and can we make a difference? Here are a few ways that we can contribute to make our community a better place to live. These sound simple things but…

  • October 15: White Cane Awareness Day – Event at NAB Karnataka

    International White Cane Awareness Day was observed at The National Association for the Blind, Karnataka Branch. The event was started with an invocation song by inmates of orgaanization.  It was followed by talks by four of the inmates who have just completed Mobility Training at The NAB Karnataka. They have explained their experience using white…

  • September 23: International Sign Language Day

    September 23: International Sign Language Day

    It’s great to learn September 23rd is observed as International Sign Language Day. (Thanks to Akhil Paul of Sense International India for tweeting about it).  International Day of Sign Language is observed every year on 23rd September along with the International Week of the Deaf. The choice of 23rd September as a date is same…

  • A child doesn’t know about hatred…

    I was recently listening to an interview of His Holiness Shri. Dnyanraj Manik Prabhu, present Peethathipati of Shri. Manik Prabhu Samsthan which he has in conversation with a television channel in Sri Lanka. One example has touched me a lot where he spoke about how hatred is being spread. He has an example of a…