Age, sizzling sun couldn’t deter these elderly voters
by Times of India
Times of India— Age, heat don’t deter them from setting examples. Underscoring that age can’t be a barrier to their civic responsibility, several senior citizens braved challenges to cast their votes on Friday. The sweltering heat too did little to deter them from doing so.Among tens of seniors who went out and got inked, TOI spoke with a handful across polling stations. Srinivas R, 82, a resident of HBR Layout and a retired employee of the survey department, has not missed a single election in his lifetime....
The Guardian—How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath. A day with some blind and partially sighted walkers has shown me how much I barely notice – and how hard it is to find the right wordsHow many shades of green are there? Whatever the answer may be, I soon ran out of words to describe them. I was walking north along the Grand Union canal, trying and failing to adequately describe what I could see, to a friend who couldn’t. This was Dave Heeley, ultra-runner, who in 2008 became the first blind person to run seven marathons on seven continents in...
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