100% right Preethi Mam. If we accept the the people as they are and the situation as it is, we can leed an inclusive life very successfully.
Renuka. On 7/24/14, Preeti Monga <preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in> wrote: > How about getting non disabled people get included in our disabled culture > instead? This is our culture as much as it is their culture! Mind you, we > all come from inclusive families anyway! How do we avoid that? Also, > children, disabled or non disabled, come crying anyway from school and > play > grounds! We all have to teach our children social skills, and one of these > social skills is; the art of accepting oneself as we are! And to learn to > focus on our strengths and improve upon areas where we are not so strong. > Once our confidence is high, which again is how we build it for our > children. I know disability is a singling out point, but the same type of > discrimination is awarded to Sikh boys and men; the ones who wear their > hair > long and a turben and beard! So is being a Sickh gentleman also some kind > of a disability? > This debate can go on for ever; so let us face it: this world is made up of > all kinds and types of humans, we all must claim our share in it, and we > must make the most of all the things we have and give life our best shot! > Preeti > Preeti Monga > Director > > > > Mobile: +91 9871701646 > Landline: 011 22781446 > E-mail: preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in > Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org > Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. Training > -Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting - Corporate > ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including demystifying > workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel and > Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. > > We assure high quality service marked with excellence and complete > customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf > Of avinash shahi > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 1:31 PM > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled. > Subject: Re: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted suicide > > Preeti mam > > humiliation is pervasive in hierarchical Indian society. It does not > inspire me to intentially enrol my blind child in a school where she > cries everyday and loses courage to narrate her humiliating story at > home. I strongly believe I'm very powerful and can coexist in an > inclusive society. and I have enough cultural/social/economic capital > that my inclusiveness will be based on my understanding of disability. > I can not give in to the pressure imposed upon me by so called > non-disabled people that you have to behave in a certain way if you > want to accomodated in our culture. 'Knowledge is power', It is high > time we use power to decide and determine the norms of inclusiveness. > Its enough that non-disabled people have overarching influence on > disabled people lives. Off to lunch will get back later. > On 7/24/14, Preeti Monga <preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in> wrote: >> Why do we assume that people without disability do not get humiliated by >> others? The human being enjoys humiliating another human, no matter >> how! >> Probabely because humiliating someone else, especially those you feel >> insecure around, makes you feel superior and elated! Even one blind >> person >> can be seen humiliating another; then what should we say? I am not saying >> that this is a good practice, but that is how life is. As George very >> rightly said, it is a good thing to get used to tackeling harsh realities >> of >> life at an early stage. Do you think that family easily gives up any >> opportunity to humiliate another family member? Blind or not. Yes, the >> disabled are already suffering so much that even a little harshness can >> cause enormous pain! I agree with George that we blind cannot live in >> isolation and ultimately we have to live in the inclusive society. >> Therefore, we need to learn the tactic of staying put in this world which >> insidently also belongs to us as much as it does to anyone else! Yes, > there >> can be programmes where people with disabilities are trained to learn to >> deal successfully with the harshness life keeps hurdeling at them! >> Preeti >> >> Preeti Monga >> Director >> >> >> >> Mobile: +91 9871701646 >> Landline: 011 22781446 >> E-mail: preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in >> Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org >> Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. Training >> -Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting - > Corporate >> ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including demystifying >> workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel and >> Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. >> >> We assure high quality service marked with excellence and complete >> customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On > Behalf >> Of George Abraham >> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 12:47 PM >> To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues > concerning >> the disabled.' >> Subject: Re: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted > suicide >> >> Consider this Avinash: Once you get out of the education stage of your >> life, you work and live in an inclusive environment. What about the >> humiliation people go through. Inclusion right from early days prepares > one >> to deal with the harsh realities of the World. Having said this, there is > a >> lot of work that needs to be done in terms ground preparation of the >> inclusive education platform. It is inclusive education that also >> prepares >> the non disabled population to understand , appreciate and engage with >> disability and people with disability. >> This subject again can debated. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On > Behalf >> Of avinash shahi >> Sent: 24 July 2014 12:24 >> To: accessindia; jnuvision; sayeverything >> Subject: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted suicide >> >> So what the proponents of Inclusive education say on this? >> Psychological humiliation leaves more scars ,you know. We do not know >> how many of students go through similar experiences in colleges and >> universities? who cares about them? This teacher must be suspended >> forthwith. People in Odisha must take the matter with the concerned >> authorities. Such teachers who are incensitive to the needs of >> disabled students and humiliate them the need to be delth sternly by >> the law enforcing agencies. Do forward this to the people active in >> Odisha. >> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140724/jsp/odisha/story_18646088.jsp >> >> Cry for suspension of Utkal faculty >> OUR CORRESPONDENT >> Bhubaneswar, July 23: Visually challenged students today sat on a >> protest before the disability commissioner's office here demanding >> immediate suspension of the Utkal university faculty Sujit Acharya. >> >> Acharya had allegedly insulted a visually impaired student, who was >> compelled him to attempt suicide. >> >> The students squatted in front of the commissioner's office on the >> premises of Capital Hospital, where the victim Chakradhar Dash is >> admitted since Friday. >> >> Twenty-five-year-old Chakradhar had tried to kill himself after he was >> allegedly humiliated by Acharya in an examination hall on July 17. >> >> Dash, a postgraduate student of history under the directorate of >> distance and continuing education,had gone to the varsity to appear >> for his semester exam. >> >> Chakradhar alleged that the faculty misbehaved with him and made fun >> of him and his scribe before the class asking him to sit near the >> toilet. >> >> Distressed due to the insult, the student had drunk a full bottle of >> phenyl. Friends of the boy, who found him unconscious, rushed him to >> the Capital Hospital where he is undergoing treatment. >> >> The student alleged that he was regularly cornered by the faculty of >> the directorate and had to study without any books or support of the >> teachers. >> >> "We have initiated an inquiry into the matters and will take action >> against anyone found guilty," said director Sasmit Pani directorate of >> distance and continuing education. >> >> Besides suspension of the teacher, the students also demanded the >> proper supply of Braille books and immediate implementation of the >> Braille transcription project announced by the government. >> >> A vigilance inquiry must be made into why schemes such as talking >> books meant to serve hundreds of blinds children has failed to >> deliver, demanded Joginder, a student. >> >> This apart, the students appealed to the state government as to why >> the educational institutions have been continuing collection of fee >> from the disabled, despite the announcement of the government for a >> fee waiver for such candidates. >> -- >> 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_accessin >> dia.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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