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This book cafe in Delhi has been designed for the diff-abled with utmost care, keeping in mind easy movement of wheelchairs, access to washrooms, tactile tiles for the visually-impaired and much more. Delhi-based architect and interior designer Aatika Manzar ensures that every space she designs has a story to tell. Even when she is working on commercial spaces, …

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Khansa cannot see. To read, she uses a screen reading software. To move, she uses a white cane. Source: Khansa Maria hansa Maria from Pakistan, winner of a Rhodes Scholarship, is now pursuing a master’s at Oxford University. She is neither your regular scholar nor your run-of-the-mill Oxford student — but she is every bit …

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Picture Credit: Reuters (Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) Josef Aschbacher) The European Space Agency hopes to hire and launch the world’s first physically disabled astronaut and several hundred would-be para-astronauts have already applied for the role, ESA head Josef Aschbacher told Reuters on Friday. The 22-member space programme has just closed its latest decennial …

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