by Manas Mitra | Mar 5, 2016 | Articles
Recently some changes have been made in English Braille. The new code has been named Unified English Braille, or UEB in short. The nomenclature is obviously significant. So far we have read different styles in Braille writing in British and American books. Now it...
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...
by Manas Mitra | Nov 8, 2014 | Articles
The following paper was presented by Shri Sadhan Chandra Das, an active social worker and former Principal of Coochbehar Government Blind School, in the Seminar on “the Role of Integrated and Special Education for Sightless children at the Primary Level”...
