In India, where a large number of disabled students come from poor families, the demand of a household to pay thousands in rent for higher education is a tall one.

A process initiated by the BJP ignored UGC guidelines to interview candidates for the post of assistant professors.

The challenges underprivileged groups will now face under the new 13-point roster system are ones that differently abled people faced even before.

Shortly before polls, the state cabinet decided to hasten appointments by scrapping any interview round to select assistant professors.

As the new session is about to start, there is still no sign of the much-promised faculty recruitment despite posts being advertised and thousands of candidates having paid crores of rupees as application fee.

Institutional apathy has meant that despite having a legal right, persons with disabilities struggle to get government jobs and admission to educational institutions.

It is high time disability is seen as a mainstream issue in politics. The media too has a responsibility to ensure that people with disabilities are not merely seen as 'objects of charity'.

There needs to be a shift from a charity-based approach to a rights-based approach.

There needs to be a shift from a charity-based approach to a rights-based approach.

Our epics teach us to discriminate against disabled people by portraying them negatively and telling us their condition is because of sins committed in past lives.