About Jose Alvares De Azevedo

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Azevedo was born on this day in 1834 in Rio de Janeiro. He was born blind and was known to be extremely intelligent and endlessly curious as a child — he investigated the world around him through touch only. His family sent him to the Royal Institute of Blind Young People in Paris, the only school specialized in education for the blind, from age 10 to 16. Azevedo attended the school at a time when it was experimenting with the newly-introduced braille writing system.

He returned to Brazil in 1850 inspired by two goals: to advocate for the blind people in his country and to create a school like the one he studied, in Paris. Azevedo gave lectures about the ease and importance of educating the blind wherever he could, from family homes to the Imperial Court. He also taught his fellow blind Brazilians how to read and write in braille.

One of his students was the daughter of the Imperial Court’s physician. The doctor, impressed by his daughter’s development, organized an audience with the Brazilian emperor. Azevedo gave a moving presentation and showed what a visually-disabled person could achieve.

He was granted the resources to open the country’s first school for the blind, the Imperial Instituto dos Meninos Cegos (or the Imperial Institute of Blind Children). Today, the school continues its education program as the Instituto Benjamin Constant and has expanded its offerings to include physical education, acting classes, self-care and daily living guidance, and more.

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About Subhash Chandra Bose

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Subhash Chandra Bose (also known as Netaji) is known for his role in India's independence movement. A participant of the non cooperation movement and a leader of the Indian National Congress, he was part of the more militant wing and known for his advocacy of socialist policies.

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About Ruskin Bond

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Ruskin Bond is considered as one of the greatest Indian authors of the English language. His wide array of short stories, novels, essays, poems, travelogues, and articles in newspapers and magazines have inspired many aspiring writers for the past six decades. Best known as a children’s story writer, Ruskin Bond has dabbled in a variety of genres, from ghost stories to ‘odes to nature’ to unrequited love stories. His writing career brought him fame, honours and a number of awards, including the Sahitya Akademi Award (1992), Padma Shri (1991), Padma Bhushan (2014). Born to Anglo-Indian parents, Aubrey Alexander Bond and Edith Dorothy Clerke, on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli, Ruskin Bond had a less than normal childhood as other Anglo-Indian kids of his age. By the age of ten, Bond had experienced living with princes and princesses in Jamnagar (Gujarat), studying in a boarding school in Dehradun. All these experiences influenced his stories throughout his life. His most loved childhood experiences stem from his father’s nurturing affection, his motherly ayah, his gardener named Dukhi, and the thousands of books he read. The first book he ever read was Alice in Wonderland, which still remains his favourite. After completing his schooling, Bond went to England for further education. It was there that he completed and published his first novel, The Room on the Roof. This won him the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize (1957). Bond spent four years in England, but his heart was back in India, where he was born and had spent some of his dearest days. He decided to return. According to him, he felt more comfortable around “peepal trees” on the slopes than “apple orchards” in the countryside, and he was more attracted to a life with the Indian masses, than the sophistication of British citizens. Some of his Famous books are The Room on the Roof, Kashmiri Storyteller, The Blue Umbrella, The Night Train at Deoli and some of his famous poems are LONE FOX DANCING, IT ISN'T TIME THAT'S PASSING, Do not be Afraid of the Dark.

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