BBC News
By Cherylann Mollan
October 21, 2023
There’s nothing spectacular about a man riding a bicycle through a crowded street.
But what if his eyes were covered with lumps of dough, thick swabs of cotton and several layers of gauze – and he had multiple layers of bandages wound tightly around his head in such a way that only his nostrils were left exposed?
Kuda Bux, who was born in Kashmir in 1905, was famous for performing this cycling feat on streets of England and Europe in the 1930s and 40s – something he claimed he was able to do because he could “see without eyes”.