Not that I am associated with NewzHook, but I must express my
displeasure and utter disappointment on the way people are behaving.
Ajay is a CFA is a matter of pride especially for those who understand what it
even means. People are absolutely ok if no media agency highlights his
achievements, but if a receptive media agency like NewzHook decides to write by
committing a small mistake of calling him first visually impaired which later
got corrected by them, are we so insensitive to their good work that a
respectable person like Shilpi who had got nothing to do with disability has to
come in picture to provide such clarifications?
Why nobody has shown the guts to speak up for so many wrongs which are done to
take care of vested interests of a few people for which entire sector is
suffering?
@shilpi please keep up the good work leaving insensitivity behind. It is ok to
make mistakes and it is best to rectify them if you have the opportunity. As
nobody is perfect. Appreciate your brilliant team and firmly stand by with
them.00
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On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 3:02 PM +0530, "Akash Kakkar" <akash.mis...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Shilpi,
I'm already aware about very well and still general people asume low
vision people as blind only.
I think that this link of your site needs to be reread and
reconsidered by you again:
https://newzhook.com/story/19757#targetText=As%20per%20the%20World%20Health,6%2F60%20is%20legally%20blind.
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In India a person with a clarity of vision or Visual Acuity < 6/60 is
legally blind. India changed its definition of blindness in 2017.
Before that, for almost four decades since 1976, a person who was
unable to count fingers from a distance of three metres would be
considered "blind". However, now a person who is unable to count
fingers from a distance of six metres is considered disabled due to
blindness.
===
Also, this is a way to find the loop wholes in the definitions but
certainly it is not correct.
How can we consider a person low vision and not blind if this is true:
"A person who is unable to count fingers from a distance of six metres
is considered disabled due to blindness."
On 10/7/19, bhawani shankar verma wrote:
> thank you for simplifying the word "VI" as "blind". It is my strong opinion
> that we have made ourselves complicated by calling visually impaired, person
> with total absense of sight, sightless person, visually disabled and so on.
> Now the primary word "blind" came out on the result of this topic.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shilpi Kapoor
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2019 11:07 AM
> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
> Subject: [AI] Newz Hook Clarification on Ajay Minocha Story
>
> Hi All,
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> At Newz Hook, we pride ourselves is sharing stories about the amazing work
> being done by people with disabilities, their achievements, their
> challenges. There is so little done to share the good that is happening
> around people with disabilities.
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>
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> We, Newz Hook stands by our story regarding Ajay Minocha being the "first
> blind CFA charter holder from India. The only other CFA charter holder has
> low vision. He also has the relevant work experience required for the CFA
> charter which makes all the facts stated true.”
>
>
>
> We understand that some confusion may have arisen over the initial headline
> which said Ajay Minocha is the first VI person. Upon receiving an update,
> NewzHook immediately corrected the headline to say first blind person
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> We would also like to congratulate Ajay Minocha for having achieved this. We
> don’t want to take away from any other person, but we believe that successes
> like this need to be shared and applauded.
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>
>
> Thanks
>
> Shilpi Kapoor
>
> CEO, Newz Hook
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