Blindness

Sejal Shah, founder of Mumbai-based Mariposa Foundation, sits down to explain the valuable lessons she has learned over the two decades of raising her daughter, who lives with multiple disabilities.

Through its flagship cell therapy product Eyecyte-RPE, Bengaluru-based venture Eyestem seeks to restore sight for patients in the early stages of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and arrest losses for those in the later stages.

From diabetic and potential elderly cataract patients to premature infants, 3nethra developed by Bengaluru-based Kuppuswamy Chandrasekhar's Forus Health, diagnoses eye diseases within five minutes without dilating the pupils.

The director of PGIMER Chandigarh, Dr Jagat Ram grew up in a small village in Himachal Pradesh and went on to win the Padma Shri for his trailblazing work in the world of cataract surgery.

"Everything is closed here. I haven't moved outside my home for the past five months as my family warned me to not do that, since our lives depend on touching surfaces."

Meet Dr Namperumalsamy, the Chairman Emeritus of Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, who has been replacing cataracts safely and quickly to a record of one every 15 minutes.

Febin studied hard for her exams, overcoming all barriers.

A breakthrough campaign, Help Me See uses cutting-edge solutions to treat cataracts — the leading cause of blindness in India.

Mass production of accessible books can eradicate the book famine faced by persons with blindness or other print disabilities

One of India’s first sensory walls for the visually impaired has been created at the Orissa Association for the Blind through a collaboration between schoolkids from Orissa and Bristol. The project won an award in the ‘Quickest Impact’ category at the ‘I CAN Awards 2014’ organised by Design for Change.