Kathmandu, July 10 -- On Tuesday morning at 11:45, Saroj Tamang, 26, a Bachelor level student from Ratna Rajya Campus, was waiting for a bus in Nepaltar.
Tamang, who is blind, raised his right hand to hail a public bus to go to Ratnapark. He is a regular on this route. Every day he goes to Ratnapark to sell incense sticks by the roadside. Like every other day, a bus stopped heeding to his call, but when the conductor saw Tamang using a cane as a crutch, he whistled to the driver telling him to keep moving. The bus left without Tamang on board.
Embarrassed and hurt with this discrimination, Tamang noted down the bus number (by inquiring from pedestrians standing nearby) and immediately dialled 103 from his cellphone. Tamang passed on the b...