Very well said Vamshi sir! On 11/14/15, George Abraham <[email protected]> wrote: > Turab, > > This is a good account of what is going around. Mind sets form the basic > problem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of turab chimthanawala > Sent: 14 November 2015 13:20 > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled. > Subject: Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual > impairment > > Sorry for the inconvenience. I have pasted here the content of my article. > > Change in attitude of persons towards visually impaired > Visual impairment is a handicap and such persons are dependent on > others but adequate changes in the mindset of other persons may enable > such persons in living a complete life. Sadly in India, despite the > widespread of education and modern ideas people’s notion towards > disability especially physical disability is very conservative and > narrow-minded. Although globalization has brought in new products, > technology, knowhow, latest services into our country and aping the > Western ideas, dressing styles, habits, customs is the ‘ in thing ’ > for most Indians, we have not been able to appreciate the attitude of > foreigners towards handicapped persons and inculcate it into our > lives. > In India due to the narrow-minded thinking of people towards > disability we are not able to perform even routine tasks properly and > many of the common public utility services do not have adequate > provisions for handicapped persons. > On one hand people are so shrewd that they can comprehend one’s > thought process merely by facial expressions then why can’t they > understand that a person is handicapped by his mannerisms? Do they > have to be told everytime? The other day at the dentists’ place I was > struggling to find a seat (although I had come holding my driver’s > hand) a lady sitting there perceived me as acting fresh and took a > brief interview of me. Once at our shop counter I was taking time to > figure out the currency note, the customer passed a stray comment “ Is > the note false? Better install a checking machine if you are so > suspicious! “ Can’t he see I am taking assistance. Some people also > consider visually handicapped as hearing impaired, instead of saying > Hi they say HIIIII. There is even a strange and baseless mindset among > some persons that visually handicapped persons are mentally > incompetent. I have experienced this on a number of occasions. Once in > a departmental store, the shoplkeeper instead of speaking to me kept > talking to my driver. Also in India people make mountains of > molehills while helping visually handicapped persons. Once during my > flight from Mumbai to Nagpur ( I was travelling alone) , the flight > crew made such a Hurrah about me at the time of embarking ‘ Blind > passenger on board!!!’and ultimately I had to get off on my own. I > feel if they would even make 10% of the noise for some suspicious > criminal many criminals would be prevented from fleeing. On my trip to > Switzerland the guide on the tourist bus was so elegant in helping me > that I think hardly anyone on the bus got a clue that I was partially > sighted. Also despite being highly educated and having large > exposure,people lack the basic common sense required to interact with > visually handicapped people/ For instance people instead of verbal > communication resort to funny nods of head or strange bodily actions > which are difficult to comprehend even for normal people. > I just pray and hope that the ‘Modi wave’ which hass led to a new > awakening among people about different ideas such as love for daughter > ( Selfy with daughter ), popularising India’s rich panorama ( > Incredible India) tries to positively impact people’s mindset towards > disability. > Cheers > Turab > > > > 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/[email protected]/ > > 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.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. 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