Dear folks: I am happy to announce that my book “Lights Out”, a blow by blow account of how it felt like to be gradually losing vision, is being published by Random House India. Through “Lights Out” I want people beyond the medical and VI community to speak about R.P. and other retinal conditions and question practices such as marriages of consanguinity that is so prevalent in south India and leads to R.P. and other retinal conditions. I am also happy to note that I am going the route taken by others in this group, notably Ms. Preeti Monga and a few other of our visually challenged friends who took to writing to create awareness.
I have written to Harish to see if I can share the experience of writing the book with our Access Indian friends at the February convention. In fact, I would like to convert that into a creative writing workshop of two or three hours duration in which I would like to deal with writing as a medium of expression. I would like to see more writers out of this group making an impact on the way blindness and blind people are perceived in the outside world. I would like to know if there is interest for a session on writing. Please keep Harish posted about it. In the mean time, please spread the word about the book. If some of you are wondering about e-edition or audio, I have spoken to Random House India, the publishers of the book, to consider other formats. Possibly, there would be an epop edition for Kindle users. I shall keep you all updated as and when the publisher decides on other formats. Thanks for all your support and good wishes over the years, particularly the senior members who have offered plenty of encouraging words. Warm regards, Subramani -- L. Subramani, Snr. Subeditor, Deccan Herald, Bangalore, M: 91-7204322451 Facebook: Subramani Lakshminarayanan Twitter: lsubramani60873 Linkedin: L. Subramani website: http://www.lsubramani.com If you are someone who need personal help to cope with blindness, a little friendly chat about things that bother you or just an ear to listen to your fears and frustrations, please don't hesitate to get in touch. I've been through that and I can help. Just leave your questions and if you don't want to give your name, that's fine. Are you an HR exec, a volunteer, a friend/relative of someone going through blindness or do you want to understand disability because it's part of something that you are working on?... Pl get in touch for volunteer help. Time to meet up again! Register for AccessIndia Convention 2014: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm 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. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
