yes I also surprised! May be he has some confusion. On 9/30/13, Satguru Rathi <tarannumra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Mr. Kartik Sawhney whose name is mentioned in the article is from Delhi and > > not from Kolkata. > > Satguru > ___,__.___ > "Life's battle do not always go, to the stronger or faster man. But sooner > or later the one who wins, is the one who thinks he can." > > Satguru Rathi. > Mobile: +91-9871489945 > Email: satgurura...@yahoo.co.in > satg...@saksham.org > Skype: satgururathi > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/satguru.rathi.9 > Website: www.saksham.org > -----Original Message----- > From: avinash shahi > Sent: Sunday, 29 September, 2013 10:11 PM > To: accessindia ; jnuvision > Subject: [AI] The Hindu: Rana Siddiqui Zaman meets George Abraham > > A question of vision, not sight > http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/a-question-of-vision-not-sight/article5180540.ece > A still from the serial. (Right) George Abraham A new television > series is trying to change society’s attitude towards the visually > impaired. Rana Siddiqui Zaman > “My family members don’t realise what I am doing on my own without > their help. They only see what I don’t or cannot. This upsets me no > end.” I remember these words by a senior research scholar I knew. He > was visually impaired. > > That was in the early 1990s. Today efforts are on to make people > understand that visually-impaired people, if granted resources and > encouragement, are no less than a person with normal vision. One such > endeavour is Nazar Ya Nazariya , a new serial on Doordarshan aired > every Saturday at 9.30 a.m., which highlights the achievements of > visually-impaired people in different fields. Each episode is > introduced by actor Naseeruddin Shah — who incidentally played a > visually-impaired principal of a school in Sai Paranjpe’s critically > acclaimed film Sparsh in 1980. Television actor Harsh Chhaya anchors > the series. > > The serial will feature 32 case studies from across India. For > example, a visually- and hearing-impaired dance group from Bijnour, a > businessman in Guwahati, a theatre group in Kolkata, a national > swimming champion, a journalist, a national level chess player and > people in corporate and rural India. One episode showed how > visually-impaired students have to drop science and math after Std. > VIII. It featured two boys — Karthik Sahni from Kolkata who scored 96 > per cent in these subjects and has been offered a Stanford > scholarship, and Prateek Dutta who did cryptology from IIT Karakhpur > and has been conferred the J.C Bose Award — and raised the question of > whether the problem lay with the student’s capability or in the > teaching. In other episodes, visually-impaired achievers talk of their > lives or showcase their skills, while making viewers realise that they > are leading normal lives. > > The serial was conceived of by George Abraham, Chief Executive Officer > of Score Foundation, an NGO dedicated to finding resources for the > visually-impaired. This is his debut production, in association with > Sightsavers, an international charity that works to combat blindness > in developing countries. > > “The idea is not to raise [awareness of] problems, because everyone > knows about them. It is about making people change their inse nahi > hoga (They can’t do it) attitude. It is about trying to show that > blindness has lot of possibilities and if proper training is imparted, > the blind can be utilised as the best human resources available,” > asserts George. The serial will also suggest that the government > policies ought to support the visually impaired. “We are not focusing > on what they can’t do but on what they can. We are asking if the > problem is one of nazar ya nazariya (lack of sight or lack of > vision),” he adds > > A team of 10 people travelled across India and throughout, George > says, they met curious people. Children were more interested in the > “subjects” than the shooting and wanted to know if serial timings > would clash with their school timings. > > Handling the team had its own issues. Transferring his sensibilities > to the team was a challenge. For instance, “the camera would focus on > the subjects’ eyes. I didn’t want that usual negative attitude > throughout a 22-minute episode. So, I had to intervene to show them as > normal human beings,” he recalls. > > George had conceived of the idea many years ago and even spoken to > actor Shashi Kapoor about it but it didn’t take off. “After a talk > with Tripurari Sharan, the Director General of Doordarshan, I posted > the idea on Facebook and filmmaker Somu Ghosh contacted me. With their > cooperation, my dream became a reality,” says George. > > Though the timing is not audience-friendly, George insists this slot > has less competition, and he doesn’t have to contend with soap operas > on prime time. > > Scripted by Sehba Imam and directed by Mohammad Faizan, the serial > already has people like Shashi Tharoor, Harsha Bhogle and V.V.S > Laksman tweeting about it, while MSN and Godfrey Phillips’s Be Brave > website also promote it. > > > -- > Avinash Shahi > M.Phil Research Scholar > Centre for The Study of Law and Governance > Jawaharlal Nehru University > New Delhi India > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with 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 > > > Disclaimer: > 1. 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