Godavari Pushkaralu: Visually impaired students take dip

Basar (Adilabad): A group of eight visually impaired students of Osmania University, Hyderabad, took a holy dip at the Basar pushkar ghat with religious fervor and gaiety and had a darshan of Goddess Saraswati.

The students joined hands together and headed towards the pushkar ghat and took the holy dip without much difficulty at Basar. The students came from Hyderabad by train and enjoyed the Godavari Pushkaralu with a common friend briefing them about the arrangements.

Visually impaired students studying at Osmania University, Mahesh, Venkanna and Swamy Naik are natives of Nalgonda, Srinivas Reddy of Karimnagar, Nagesh and Bhanu Kumar of Nizambad and Venkatesh and others came to the ghats with the help of their common friend and took the holy dip with the help of volunteers, and police present at the ghat. “We can feel the flow of the river Godavari and visualise its beauty though they may not see it and added that they can feel like any other person with our ‘mano netram’ (inner consciousness) though they are blind,” said visually impaired Venkanna who took the holy dip. He said for all the visually impaired friends who came to Basar this was a first time life experience. They were grateful for being able to experience it.

The students also visited the Suryeshwara temple (Shiva) on the banks of river Godavari and had darshan. Some of the students among them were PG students from Nizam College in Hyderabad.

The visually impaired students say that they were pursuing higher studies with the blessings of Goddess Saraswati otherwise they would not have come to this level.