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International White Cane Day – 15th October
A white cane is used by many people who are blind. It helps as a mobility tool and comes in different varieties such as a long cane, foldable cane. 75% of the cane is painted with white and 25% is painted with Red colour. 15th October is marked as White Cane Safety Day. This observation…
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@hcltech – I didn’t feel good experience with you
I usually don’t like writing in public and as far as possible, would like to resolve problems directly with organizations and always love to retain relationships with my past employers. Unfortunately my experience with HCL Technologies Ltd is bitter. This is certainly a choice that I regret in my career life. I think others may…
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NGOs, let’s be smart; it’s 2015!
It was in 2010, I wrote a post on how I would like to see disability organizations and we are now in mid of 2015; but I don’t see any much change. I got a call from a disability organization (I prefer not to mention the name) and person who called me is their employment…
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Raising awareness is rather important to build accessible world – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Developers are awesome, designers are awesome too! Always willing and keen to put in an innovative effort and bring a wow experience to consumers; then why is that they don’t care about accessibility? If you think they don’t that’s wrong; They absolutely don’t see people with disabilities / elderly as their enemies and never intend…
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Professor who inspires me…
Quite often we see a person who just does a business showcases they are super busy and sometimes avoid responding calls or emails with an excuse that they are busy. But there is one person I am fortunate enough to know in my life who in spite heading a reputed technological institution and on the…
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Indian Railways: Upgraded tickets and train schedules;
I wanted to write this post about a year ago and finally able to get to it. My wife and I frequently travel by Indian Railways and for sometime, there are a few nice things that introduced by Indian Railways: Upgraded tickets: This happens when ticket has booked under waiting list. While booking the ticket…
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Greetings on the eve of India’s independence day!
I extend warm greetings to all my fellow Indian and non-resident Indians on the auspicious occasion of India’s independence day! As we know India got its freedom in the year 1947 and thus far we have made a tremendous progress but we are a long way to go! While we celebrate the Independence day and…
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DesignDay meet-up at Bangalore – slides and resources
It was nice to be at July meet-up of DesignDay. Here is a recap of the event, my slides and as promised some resources! What’s DesignDay? DesignDay is a platform for designers to meet, discuss and solve problems together. The event started by introductions including name, what do they do, what can they offer to…
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Railway Budget 2014 – a better and futuristic one – my thoughts!
It was nice listening to Shri. Sadananda Gowda, Union Minister for Railways, Government of India as he presented his Railway budget for 2014-15. It is great to see that due importance has given to Passenger amenities, safety and cleanliness. Some of the points I liked from this budget are: Increasing qualities of passenger amenities including…
