by Manas Mitra | Mar 2, 2015 | Event, News
About 200 physically handicapped persons took part in the Assembly March from Subodh Mallick Square to Esplanade in the scorching sun. Some of them were practically crawling on the hot Kolkata street. They gathered under the banner of Pashchimbanga Pratibandhi Aikya...
by Manas Mitra | Nov 8, 2014 | Articles
Here is an atempt to trace the beginnings of tactile reading and writing for the blind culminating in the genesis of Braille system. This is not an exhaustive study. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the contribution of Monsieur Louis Braille in bringing the...
by Manas Mitra | Nov 8, 2014 | Articles
On this bicentennial birth anniversary year of Monsieur Louis Braille, Blind Persons’ Association offers its deepest homage and highest tribute to the sacred memory of this great scientist and deliverer of the blind. By his epoch-making invention of the raised...
by Manas Mitra | Nov 8, 2014 | Articles
History of Education of the Sightless 1254 King Louis IX of France founded Quinze-Vingts, the first-ever formal institution for sightless people, providing 300 French knights whose eyes were put out as a punishment by the Saracens during the crusade 1745 Valentin...
by Manas Mitra | Nov 8, 2014 | Articles
The following article by Shri Saikat Kar, former General Secretary of Blind Persons’ Association, was published in the souvenir on the occasion of the bicentennial birth anniversary of Monsieur Louis Braille in 2009. The article is put up on the web considering...
