Besides, tell me honestly how many disabled can afford to go abroad. Unfortunately, we are not even in a politically sensitive country to seek asylum.
Subramani -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taraprakash Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Disabled students turn to foreign universities *********************** No virus was detected in the attachment no filename Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. *********************** I have nothing to say against the media in this particular context. These kind of reports do draw bureaucratic attention towards what is missing, however, I am against the mindset that everything is hunky dory in the west and leaving once country for good is a panacea for all disability related problems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Subramani L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Disabled students turn to foreign universities > Agreed Dinesh. Most media people themselves need to learn about > disability issues before they set out to report on things. It's sad that > while there are several 'beats' for reporters such as 'education' > 'health', which a single reporter follows for a long time and becomes an > expert in it, there isn't an independent 'beat' for disability, though > some papers like The Hindu and my own newspaper are sending reporters > more to focus on disability issues. > > Subramani > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dinesh > Kaushal > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:45 AM > To: Geetha Shamanna; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AI] Disabled students turn to foreign universities > > *********************** > No virus was detected in the attachment no filename > > Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. > *********************** > > > I agree with Geetha, and who says people in the west do not go through > those > hardships? those facilities could not be build without the hardwork. > Lots of > western literature is filled with the evidence of the hardwork which is > now > showing the results. > > And I can from my own experience say, that avoiding hardwork sooner or > later > leads to disappointment. > > And smart hardwork usually leads to greater enlightenment of once own > abilities. > > I am also somewhat concerned that media people do not think while > reporting, > what kind of values they are promoting? Escapeism? Easy Life? that's why > > rome and lots of successful states fell. It all happens because of > paradox > of success! good life should not mean Easy life and only fun, but > greater > ability to do something with lots of fun as well. > > There is nothing wrong in working and studying in a developed nation, > but > reason to go must be carefully evaluated. > > Dinesh > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Geetha Shamanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:39 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] Disabled students turn to foreign universities > > >> While it cannot be denied that foreign universities offer better >> facilities >> for the disabled, in terms of openness about employing blind people, > India >> is far ahead of several western countries. 80% of blind people are >> unemployed in America, and the figures are not too encouraging in > Europe, >> either. >> So those of us who choose to remain in India despite all the hardships > >> need >> not despair. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Viraj Kafle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:13 PM >> Subject: [AI] Disabled students turn to foreign universities >> >> >>> Disabled students turn to foreign universities >>> >>> Swastika Mehta >>> >>> Saturday, September 23, 2006 (New Delhi): >>> >>> The lack of infrastructure on campus for students who are visually >>> impaired or hearing impaired has now forced several of them to look > at >>> foreign universities. >>> Smriti, 22, is an M Phil student at Jawaharlal Nehru University and > among >>> the 1 per cent visually impaired students in the country to reach > this >>> educational >>> level. But her journey so far has been a difficult one. >>> "There are no facilities in India. I have to do everything on my own. > I >>> have to go to libraries, scan all my books. It's a struggle, visually >>> challenged >>> people work more than sighted people," she says. >>> Smriti wants to make a crossover in every sense of the word. After >>> completing her M Phil in Mythology, she plans to go to Chicago > University >>> for a doctorate >>> in Disability Studies. >>> "Here we don't even have books and computers. Some people are from > such >>> poor families that they don't even have a tape recorder to study > from," >>> she adds. >>> Better infrastructure >>> For disabled students, the West promises full fledged universities > like >>> the Gallaudet University in Washington DC for the hearing impaired > and >>> better physical >>> infrastructure on campuses. >>> What's more, it opens up a whole new world of job opportunities. >>> For instance Jagdish, who is hearing impaired and a class X pass out, > has >>> with grave difficulty managed to get a job as a teacher at the School > for >>> Deaf. >>> He earns a meagre amount of Rs 6,000 every month and has been limited > by >>> the fact that signing is not recognised as a language, like it is in > the >>> West. >>> He was unable to study courses like Engineering and Medical Science. >>> "Abroad, there are deaf and dumb pilots," says Jagdish. >>> "There are only few of us who have family support and can thus afford > to >>> go abroad," adds Smriti. >>> Looking West >>> Twenty five-year-old Shobhan, a PhD student at JNU, took his GREs > last >>> year. He is waiting to arrange a scholarship to go to the US. >>> Though the Centre provides scholarships to Dalit, tribal and Muslim >>> students who want to pursue higher education abroad, there is no >>> government scholarship >>> for students with disabilities. >>> "If I put it simply, we can't even walk freely here. We don't have >>> accessibility like we have in the US," complains Shobhan. >>> For students like Smriti and Shobhan, it's a mixture of both ambition > and >>> disillusionment that pushes them to apply to universities in the > West. >>> Ambition to find a place under the sun and disillusionment as there > is >>> lack of infrastructure in India. >>> >>> > http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?category=National&template=Edu > cation&slug=Disabled+students+rue+lack+of+facilities&id=93668&callid=1 >>> To unsubscribe send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> 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.i > n >>> >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 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.i > n >> > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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.i > n > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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.i n > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. 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