Newly Disability Definition To Be Widened

The government is set to widen the definition of "disability" to bring the count of physically challenged persons in sync with the ground situation, heeding complaints that...

58% Disabled SC/ST Kids Not Schooled

While most parents shuttle between different schools as the admission season gets underway, for some families educating their children is not a choice - they have to help t...

Seeds For Cinema: An Interview With Dr Shravan Kumar, CEO, CFSI

“At CFSI we not only want to make films but also make film makers”
-Dr. Shravan Kumar
On the fifteenth of February, Director, Producer and Managing Di...

Silent

Deep inside every woman I have ever known across the many hierarchies that paint my world is vacuum; the result of an endless internal conflict that remains unresolved.

Bill Ensures Family Life For Transgender Children

DELHI: The practice of disappointed families giving away transgender children to bands of ‘third gender’ wandering cities and villages may soon be passe. The &l...

DD To Telecast Special Programme On Mental Health Problems & Prejudices

The Doordarshan flagship programme Aaj Savere will focus on issues relating to mental health awareness and public education.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Avdesh Sharm...

Gulzar At Film Festival For Differently Abled: I Feel Handicapped In Comparison

There were many father-daughter emotional moments at the opening ceremony of the International Film Festival For Persons With Disabilities. Meghna ka kaam dekh ta...

Retroscope - A Veritable Carnival

The 19th edition of CFSI’s festival turned out to be a veritable carnival, a feast of colourful sights and sounds.
Had I not gone, I would have missed the robust...

International Film Festival For Persons With Disability In December

The first three-day International Film Festival for Persons with Disability (IFFFD) will be organised by Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry on December 1 in which 40 f...