Hi rahul Firstly there are no absolute terms to judge anybody as excellent or otherwise. We may speak only in terms of generally prevalent notions and yardsticks.
Secondly, We may say that a few persons with disabilities may go beyond even the generally accepted norms of excellence in professions or academics and command the respect of society, but that should not become the desired level of performance for every disabled, rather it should set in motion a process and form an ambience where functioning of disabled is recognized and enhanced to make them come up to generally accepted average levels of performance sufficient for leading a fulfilling life. For instance, in academics we three Asudani brothers have captured not less than thirty gold medals in various exams competing successfully with able bodied, I alone cornering 19 of such gold medals including 13 in LL.B., highest in the convocation of university. Now surely, this feat is regarded as climbing to commanding heights of academic performance. But now surely, it would be a magnificent blunder if such performance is required to be duplicated by any disabled in order to be recognized by society. Unfortunately, it has been done. A blind girl studying after me in the same school from where I topped my state in secondary school certificate exam in the general merit list, was thrown out for she was below average in studies. The room should not only be at the top but at the every intervening step in ladder. climbers to the top are rare, and rarest those with disability, their example may be cited as inspiring but they should not be held up as the necessary minimum yardsticks for a disabled person to merit any recognition. If we ourselves glamorize the Darwinian ideal of survival only of only the fittest, in this context the excellent, then I am afraid no disability deserves it at the most basic or ground level of evolutionary dynamics. So, I still think, let us try to excel, but do at our best whatever we are doing, and widen the sphere of our activities. Let an average disabled person have an ambience of support but not of threat. Regards Rajesh -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of rahul cherian Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:30 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] KPCC cell for the differently abled Hi Rajesh, Yes I totally agree that a person with disability has to put in 100 times the effort as a person without disability to do anything. I also agree that it is a very tall order for a person with disability to compete with, and be better than, an able bodied person. But unless we are able to compete with, and be better than, able bodied persons, especially in our professions, we will not be able to command the respect of society. It may be difficult but we have to try. We have to set the benchmarks high and we should be prepared for people to judge us on absolute terms and not according to the terms that able bodied people have set for us. Best regards, Rahul 2010/1/27 Asudani, Rajesh <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in> > Well, We have to excel in whatever we do. That is the approach to make > ourselves counted in a democracy. > As an approach it sounds good but let us consider some things: > > 1. Noboty disabled or able-bodied can excel in whatever s/he does. > > 2. A person with disability has to put in N fold more efforts and has to > encounter N number of more hardships to even approximate the average level > of functioning in general. > > 3. So the mandate of excellence as per general norm in all spheres of > activity is a tall order for a disabled person. > > 4. Society is not fine-tuned to calibrate the yardstic of performance and > excellence according to a persons disability and temperament. > > 5. So, we may say that a person with disability should try to do at his > best whatever s/he is doing and widen the sphere of her/his activities, > without laying down something so vague as excellence. > > > regards > Rajesh > -----Original Message----- > From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto: > accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of rahul cherian > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:45 PM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: Re: [AI] KPCC cell for the differently abled > > hello pavan, > > I believe that people with disability will be a vote bank if we can > organise > ourselves because there are about 10 crore people with disability in India > alone. Till we organise ourselves, we will have to rely on the charity > model > where we beg for our rights and not a rights based model where we can > demand > our rights. > > I agree with your approach of building confidence in people and i think > this > can be done not only by being service oriented and helping people but also > being more active in mainstream activities, whether it be in professions, > business or otherwise. Mainstream society has to look at people with > disability as being equal to them and not as a community that wants > sympathy. We should be fearless and challenge perceptions of people by > excelling in whatever we do. I feel that mainstream society has not had > the opportunity to interact enough with people with disability who are not > stereotypes. We have to put our best foot forward to break the stereotypes. > > I think that meeting Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan and other leaders will be very > useful. They must know that there is a sizable number of persons > with disabilities who are interested in politics and indeed in joining > politics. I wish you all the best in your endeavor. > > Best regards, > > Rahul > > 2010/1/25 l pavan <l.pavan....@gmail.com> > > > hello list members! > > to some extent i have followed the discurtion on above mentioned issue. > > as one of you said blind may not have a vote bank. > > but it should not deprive us from getting in to politics. > > as of now we may not establish a new party. > > but we may slowly buildup confidence in people by actively involving > > in various activities that benifit people. > > in this regards i personally we may think of approaching dr jaya > > prakash narayan. > > who started loksatta(with new politics for new generation)this is my > > personal feeling iam sorry if i hurt > > -- > > l.pavan("help ever & hurt never") > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.inwith the subject unsubscribe. > > > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > > please visit the list home page at > > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.inwith > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. 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