Disability & Tech The first disabled Indian to live on Antarctica, struggles with infrastructure at home

The Suno India Show

This is part two of our miniseries on disability and technology on The Suno India Show, where we talk to people across a range of disabilities. In this episode, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Sai Prasad Vishwanathan, the first Indian with a disability to set foot on and live on the Antarctic continent. He is also the first Indian with a disability to skydive which went down in the Limca Book of Records. He has won a host of awards, including the Helen Keller Role Model Person Award 2010 given by the Home Minister. He talks about the infrastructural issues he continues to face in his daily life and how technology perpetuates such exclusions.

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1. Disability & Tech The first disabled Indian to live on Antarctica, struggles with infrastructure at home (00:00:00)

2. Sai’s introduction (00:00:15)

3. What is disability for Sai (00:02:36)

4. Infrastructure, issue of cost and scale (00:07:57)

5. Need for accountability (00:11:01)

6. Tech helps with info, self-expression (00:12:55)

7. Matrimonial websites discriminate (00:18:13)

8. Problem with booking cabs (00:22:49)

9. Accessibility is seen as charity (00:24:29)

10. Going to Antarctica (00:28:00)