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Shilpi Kapoor, the founder of BarrierBreak is a social entrepreneur who believes in using technology to improve the lives of the differently abled.
Shilpi Kapoor worked for a boss who was paralyzed; but it took 2 years for her to realize this since they were in a virtual work environment. Once she came to know of this fact, she realized that technology doesn’t differentiate between the abled and the differently abled. And thus was born the idea behind BarrierBreak, a pioneering firm in accessibility and assistive technology in India.
Through BarrierBreak, Shilpi Kapoor hopes to bridge the gap between ability and accessibility thus creating an inclusive society which offers equal opportunities to one and all. Their initiatives are many, including spreading awareness about disability and accessibility, developing libraries for the visually impaired and offering disability-friendly services and products such as communication tools for the hearing impaired.
Often referred to as the technology enabler and an accessibility evangelist, Shilpi Kapoor wants to enrich the lives of people with disabilities. Her goal is to empower the 70 million disabled people in India.
Why we find her inspiring:
– For making assistive technology affordable and accessible to people from the lower to middle income groups
– For being a role model to women entrepreneurs in India
– For proving gender stereotyping wrong by being a successful woman in STEM.
*Photo source: Ashoka India.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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