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We too have the right to look smart & gorgeous - My Take by Sai Kaustuv, Happiness Coach

In My Take this week, Sai Kaustav, who stands out for his distinctive fashion sense, tells us what set him off on the journey towards designing adaptive wear for people with disabilities.

In 2016 I was nominated for a prestigious award and had to go onstage to receive it. It was at that time that I started thinking about how to present myself a little differently.

I wanted to change my look as disabled people are not here to look dull and down. We too have the right to look smart and gorgeous.

That's when the idea of designing accessible clothing came to my mind. I star

Financial planning mistakes that parents with disabled children typically make

Raising a child with a disability brings with it not just emotional challenges, but also financial ones. The needs vary, depending on the kind of disability. Children with learning disabilities can be helped out with certain accommodations in school, while those with severe cognitive or developmental disabilities would need extensive therapies, medication, even 24-hour care.

In these circumstances, it becomes crucial for parents to plan for the future in such a way that the child has the resources to live independently. Like Gopal and Gita Sehgal have done for their son Gaurav, who h

Fascination with sign language led Ruma Roka to give deaf people a voice

Through most of his growing up years Akshat, who was born deaf, struggled to find the right kind of support in schools. By the time his parents realized he had a hearing disability, Akshat was two years old and studying in a mainstream school.

“All the special schools we took him to would give him an IQ test and advised us to continue in a mainstream school and give him speech therapy”, says mother Kamna Mathur. “He would learn by looking by pictures but would struggle to express himself or find acceptance”.

Kamna says this inability to find expression led to a lot of

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