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Podcast: Eyeway Conversations
Episode: Eyeway Conversations with Dr Sam Taraporevala
Description: In this episode of Eyeway Conversations, George Abraham speaks with Dr. Sam Taraporevala, a retired Associate Professor & Head Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the autonomous St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai.
Born blind, his parents chose to educate him in a mainstream school and college, after which he pursued his PHD.
Between 2002 and 2003, while teaching at St Xavier's College, Dr Sam set out to explore the reason behind the declining numbers of blind and visually impaired students in his college, that resulted in the inception of the famous Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Cha...