TO GO WITH India-health-society-blind,PHOTOESSAY by Xavier GALIANA
In this photograph taken on November 7, 2019, 44-year-old blind man Vinod Kumar Sharma stands with other commuters during rush hour as he prepares to exit the train carriage in Asaoti. - Tapping his white cane, Vinod Kumar Sharma spends four hours a day running the gauntlet of crowded trains and New Delhi's congested, potholed and often pavement-less roads. Sharma is one of an estimated eight million blind people in India who make up 20 percent of the global total, according to the World Health Organization. (Photo by Xavier GALIANA / AFP) / TO GO WITH India-health-society-blind,PHOTOESSAY by Xavier GALIANA