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India's Hindi-language cinema has often reinforced negative stereotypes about people with disabilities, but more recently it has produced several films that have helped raise awareness. [23] A recurrent theme has for a long time been that disability is a punishment for misdeeds, for instance in Jeevan Naiya (1936), Aadmi (1968), and Dhanwan ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian people. It includes Indian people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from India .
Masudur Rehman Baidya was born in 1968 at Ballabhpur, North 24 Parganas in West Bengal in a Bengali poor family. [2] His father was an imam of a local mosque. At the age of ten, young Masudur lost both his legs in a train mishap.
These reactions have also brought about a change in policies. The film, only ten days after its debut, influenced the Central Board of Secondary Education to provide extra time to disabled children—including visually impaired, physically disabled, and dyslexic students—during exams. In 2008, Mumbai's civic body also opened 12 classrooms for ...
Deepa Malik (born 30 September 1970) is an Indian para athlete from Haryana. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games.She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in shot put.
Kariveppil Rabiya (born 1966) is a physically disabled social worker from Vellilakkadu, Malappuram, Kerala in India who rose to prominence through her role in the Kerala State Literacy Campaign in Malappuram district in 1990. Her efforts were recognized at a national level by the Government of India on multiple occasions.
Note: This category's interpretation of disability is quite broad, and may include people with medical conditions that may not typically be considered disabled. See also Category:People with disabilities .
Boniface Prabhu is the founder of a trust, Boniface Prabhu Wheelchair Tennis Academy, based in Bangalore, with the aim of promoting the physically and intellectually disabled people and providing them with opportunities to nurture their talents. [4] The academy provides free sports training to differently enabled people. [8]