TO GO WITH India-health-society-blind,PHOTOESSAY by Xavier GALIANA
In this photograph taken on November 8, 2019, 44-year-old blind man Vinod Kumar Sharma (C) is helped by his wife Indrapti as he boards a train at Asaoti station in Asaoti, on his way to attend massage practice at the Blind Relief Association in New Delhi. - 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