Thanks a lot to both of you Best Turab On 7/17/17, Apseran Fernando via Ai <ai@accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in> wrote: > Verry intresting and Factual article! > completely aggree. > Me too join in that prayer. 'I hope and pray > the aforementioned issues also get some attention.' > > On 7/16/17, Preeti Monga via Ai <ai@accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in> wrote: >> Excellent article! Totally agree! >> >> Preeti Monga - Chief Executive Officer >> >> >> Inspiring INCLUSION! Fostering DIGNITY! >> >> >> Mobile : 91 9871701646 >> Landline : 011 22781446 >> E-mail : preeti.mo...@silver-linings.org /preeti.mo...@gmail.com >> Website : www.silver-linings.org >> Our Services: Recruitment , Trainings- Unique Motivation Programmes, >> Diversity & Inclusion, Prevention of Sexual Harassment >> Connect With Us : >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ai [mailto:ai-boun...@accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in] On Behalf Of >> turab chimthanawala via Ai >> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 10:40 >> To: ai >> Cc: turab chimthanawala >> Subject: [Ai] AI My article : Celebrity treatment of the disabled, how >> justified is it! >> >> Hi all >> Happy to share my article published yesterday. To avoid any >> accessibility issues, which may arise, have pasted the same here. >> Eagerly await feedback.. >> Celebrity treatment of the disabled: How justified is it! >> Feel glad to be writing after a long time! >> Visual impairment has led me to have many unusual and interesting >> experiences, specially over the last year where I have been living by >> myself in Mumbai and now in Hyderabad. And with God’s grace and kudos >> to the people around, I have received no short of ‘Celebrity like >> treatment’... From being allowed to jump the queue at billing desks >> to getting fee concessions on certain occasions, to getting a seat >> despite some beautiful females standing in crowded buses, I have >> enjoyed preferential treatment wherever I go. Even at the mess whilst >> others have been waiting for long, my food is served the moment I >> arrive. The most interesting one is being permitted to pass through >> without being frisked at the Bombay High Court. While all these >> experiences do prima facia feel great, they give rise to many thought >> provoking and intriguing questions >> Do I need such treatment? >> Has society overstretched the special treatment jargon? >> Is it failure to decipher the precise needs of the disabled or trying >> to just do something in the name of assisting them? >> Or to put it bluntly specially for those in power, it implies just >> doing what suits them best rather than what would actually suit and >> benefit the disabled... >> Consequently upliftment and equal treatment of the disabled takes the >> form of fancy names like ‘Divyang’ rather than actually trying to cure >> the defective ‘Ang’(organ). >> Now, I don’t grumble, for who does not like celebrity treatment! But I >> would be elated if focus is not on what is easily available but solely >> on what I genuinely need!! >> For I would greatly appreciate if instead of fancy names, the >> government makes its websites accessible for the visually impaired or >> the ICSI instead of granting me fee waivers, would have permitted me a >> internet less laptop in the open book exam or if the public transport >> would be better lit so as to absolve the need to desperately find a >> seat or for that matter the lawcourts’ infrastructure could be made >> more disabled friendly. >> Things can only improve with greater sensitisation and awakening among >> the government and the governed about the unique abilities and >> disabilities of the handicapped... >> The ‘Modi Sarkar’ via enactment of the RPD Act, Sugamya Bharat Abhayan >> and other campaigns is moving in the right direction. I hope and pray >> the aforementioned issues also get some attention. >> Disclaimer: >> 1. 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