"I am simply astounded by the superhuman spirit of such people, they are never awed by the circumstances. They perhaps prove hurdles can never awe you, intimidate you if you have the will power," Tapan Sinha's 'Wheelchair'' actor, modelled on a real life orthopaedic's life, said here.
Soumitra, also known as Ray's Apu, said the society should ensure more barrier-free environs for differently-abled persons in public places as what they needed least of all, sympathy.
"My fight remains against those persons who adds prefixes and adjectives before the name of personalities like us. I had competed with able-bodied persons during an 81-km swim and stood fifth," swimmer Masudur Rahman Baidya said at the function organised by Bengal Speech & Hearing Aid.
Well-known Audiologist Somnath Mukherjee, from the Bengal Speech & Hearing Aid, said for the hearing and speech impaired persons they were introducing a toll-free helpline to offer medical expertise, education, sporting and other necessary tips.
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