Dear friends, it is clear that this is protest against the religious understanding of disability and not against BJP government or Modi Ji. Dear Bhawani, really you have raised the pertinent question but you have missed out the actual sense of disability. the term Divyang "divine body" tells that the people with disabilities are having divine organ and special individuals in the society. here you need to understand that before the recognision of disability the disabled people were below the society, sin symbole in the society and result of displeasure of god. now the term divyang reassert the same sense of disability. the supporters of protests are arguing that we need neutral and autonomous terminology where the sense of disability can be tressed. for example the blindness is personal concern of a individuals but the blindness is a justified ground of discrimination is societal problems. which is not acceptable to us including you. secondly you talked about the better term for blind. I will go with UNCRPD and argue for persons with disabilities as umbrella term and persons with blindness as individual term, because these terms have independence meaning and correspond the actual meaning of disability. even, you said that visually challenge and visually impaired, both ther terminology were coined by the medical professoanls not by the scholars. there are some scholars who support this terminology along with they are facing challenge from the social model advocates. again I would like to say that if this term would not get refuted that the next generation of research would be in danger. please be aware about future rather than taking congent benefits.On 1/26/16, pankaj Singh kushwaha <justicewith...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends, disability is marginalised subject in the affairs of > state. Since last two years back, the department of disability > affairs was created for the empowerment of persons with disabilities. > After the Modi government it was converted as “department of > empowerment of persons with disabilities. Even in the budget the > current government allocated the money for the greater empowerment fo > persons with disabilities. > PM modi Ji, use to share his Man Ki Baat with citizen of india. In > this process, 27 december 2015 he devoted for the persons with > disability and advocated that vikalang in Hindi language and > Disability in English language are derogatory for disabled people. On > this ground, he requested to use “Divyang” which appropriately > corresponds the actual spirit of disability. > But, the disabled community and research scholars of this field > realised that the term “divyang” does not make any sense. It does > not correspond the actual meaning of disability rather than pushing > into a basket of religious kind of understanding. Where there is no > rationality than faith. He could failed to recognise the practice of > atheists people. > Dear friends, there are lot of organisations which are working in the > field of disability talking to refute the term divyang, but till > today, there is no effective effort is recorded against > divyangisation of disability. Being disabled activist and researcher, > I feel that this terminology is trying to get back ot devine > understanding of disability which was pre-industrial age and that was > the dark age of disability, because the people with disability were > characterised as Sin symbole and displeasure of god in the society. > therefore, we must oppose this kind of attempt in the 21st century > where there are very few but there is still good understanding and > awareness among the disabled community for their rights. Thus, behalf > of disabled community, I want to organise a mass protest against the > Dibyang infront of PM house. > Please share your opinion on this concern and advise how it can be > operationlised? > > > -- > Pankaj Singh Kushwaha, Ph.D.: Research Scholar, > Centre for European Studies, > School of International Studies "SIS", > Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli 110067. > Mobile no: +919868610216. > Email: justicewith...@gmail.com or pankaj.jn...@gmail.com > institutional E_mail: pankaj44_...@jnu.ac.in > Convener: JNU Visually Challenge Forum 2015-2016 >
-- Pankaj Singh Kushwaha, Ph.D.: Research Scholar, Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies "SIS", Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli 110067. Mobile no: +919868610216. Email: justicewith...@gmail.com or pankaj.jn...@gmail.com institutional E_mail: pankaj44_...@jnu.ac.in Convener: JNU Visually Challenge Forum 2015-2016 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..
