My name is Mohammed Asif Iqbal and I am totally blind for over 24 years now. I was very fortunate to grow up in the Western United States where I received my primary, secondary and partial college education. I discovered the power of thrilling experience while engaging in adventure activities. I came to India and […]
Watching the scenic beauty, admiring the flora and fauna spread around has been enticing, energizing and lovely for me. As child, I remember travelling to Himalayas, watching the view from the heights of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath, Badrinath was so exciting. The view held farms and fields of different colours like green, light brown, dark […]
A family travel to the US, hell yeah! Right? Who doesn’t want to attend their sister’s graduation if it allows for you to have a one-month trip to US including places such as NYC (Shopping in Manhattan et al, thanks to Bollywood). Ready, I boarded my flight. Her graduation was a lot of fun and […]
Jagu and I were married in ’92 after a very short and socially controversial courtship. We were classmates; typical college love affair except she was a Brahmin and I, British, white and obviously non-Hindu. Our first dates alone together were on my Enfield Bullet. We would go to the Mahi River where I taught her […]
This piece takes you through the ripples that were created when Bhupendra started his accessible travel journey with Planet Abled. I was a successful IT Analyst in TCS for quite some time after my Engineering in IT and Executive MBA when life was shaken almost without much warning. I became completely blind in both eyes four […]
70 years of freedom and independence, today we are the youngest country in the world. We are supposedly the fastest growing economy today. Since 1947 we as a nation have grown in leaps and bounce. The world is looking at us for the future. There is no field in which we are not making our […]
They say travel changes people but has travel changed me? Each step brings fresh perceptions thereby creating new neural connections. This is a subconscious process and I cannot measure the change. Though, I am sure every place I visit, becomes a memory which will remain with me all my life, it hardly matters that I […]
I have always associated travel with seeing and observing things; never imagining it could be anything more than a visual experience…until I realized it was more, much more! At 22, struck by a cerebral attack that damaged most of my sensory system, I was left totally blind and partially hearing impaired. Traveling was the last […]
I have been an avid traveler all my life. As kids, our summer and Diwali holidays would always involve getting out of the city. In those days, a road trip would take precedence over traveling in a train. Traveling by air was not on our radar. I carried on with my interest in traveling and […]
Hello friends, Sai Kaustuv Dasgupta here. I will be sharing with you what Travelling means to me and some experiences of my accessible travels. Travelling outside is a part of our life as it gives us joy, happiness and a fresh essence of life which is very essential. It also helps us to find our […]
