How the girl who was denied an education created a school
Born visually impaired in Karnataka, India, Ashwini Angadi was initially deprived of an education. As an adult she went on to set up her own pioneering school.
Ashwini Angadi was born totally blind in a small village in Karnataka, India. After initially being denied an education, a chance meeting in a taxi changed her life — she was able to enrol in a school for the visually impaired. Ashwini excelled there and later at college, and after graduating, she travelled across India as an activist lobbying for young disabled people. She’s been celebrated for her work with an award from the United Nations and went on to establish her own pioneering school.
Maksim Cristan and Daria Spada are a musical duo based in Turin, Northern Italy. They’re taking their punk-opera sound to their neighbours and the masses, in free concerts held on their 'balconcino', or little balcony. They tell reporter Dany Mitzman their story.
Get in touch: [email protected]
(Photo: Ashwini Angadi. Credit: Sam D’Agostino/ SDP Media)
Last on
Broadcasts
- Thu 13 Oct 202211:06GMTBBC World Service
- Thu 13 Oct 202217:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Thu 13 Oct 202221:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Fri 14 Oct 202202:06GMTBBC World Service
Contact Outlook
Info on how we might use your contribution on air
Podcast: Lives Less Ordinary
Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected
