Well, mental health terminology is by itself a loaded area. ( And I'm not even going near the 'unsound mind' minefield and its conflation with 'person living with mental illness.'
The MTP amendment replaces 'lunatic' with 'persons with mental illness' which as we can all agree, is problematic on a variety of levels. However, for the post office bank account opening form scenario, I'd suggested 'legally incapacitated adult' or something to that effect instead of 'lunatic' in the guardianship box. Which I think is less objectionable and offers least chance of restriction of civil liberties.) But yes, replacing 'idiot' in favour of something more acceptable currently, just as in Rosa's law, ought to be doable. And banning of some words as Obama did with Eskimo, Negro etc again will not be opposed in my opinion, even if some people regard it as trivial political correctness or the euphemism treadmill at work. What do you think? > On 24-Feb-2017 11:27 am, "Bapu Trust Pune [email protected] wrote: >> You mean, we change all 'lunatic' or 'unsound mind' terms with 'mentally ill' or 'psychosocially disabled' .... in one fell swoop?? Wow, what an idea. >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Vaishnavi Jayakumar < [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Well, from what I've learnt while digging, it doesn't look too promising. Have not found an equivalent precedent in Indian law - not even for "untouchable / Harijan" to Dalit. >>> >>> Legal types here, how did Obama pull it off? And can a similar modus operandi be used here in the Indian legal framework? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Smita Deshpande <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> This is a very good idea- to replace the word lunatic in all laws. Kudos! >>>> Smita >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Vaishnavi Jayakumar (Inclusive India) <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Reshma discovered the word 'lunatic' in the Post Office Savings Bank account opening form - it's the first out of the 9 listed below of a site search for the word 'lunatic' on India Post's website. >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/dop_pdffiles/form/sb-3.pdf, >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/.../postalaccountsmanual_vol..., >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/.../posb_manual_vol-iii.pdf, >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/.../posb_manual_vol-iii.pdf, >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/dop_rti/fhb_volume_ii.pdf, >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/.../posb_manual_vol-i.pdf, >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/dop_rti/sb_orders_2015.pdf, >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/dop_rti/pm_vol_viii.pdf, >>>>> https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/pages/rti/rti-manual-2.aspx >>>>> She suggested keeping track of whatever needed fixing. I was pleasantly surprised to find some resources from before, including Bhargavi's review of disabling or offensive laws. >>>>> >>>>> I have put everything in one place - there're some false positives and some random keyword analysis also mixed up in this dump. >>>>> >>>>> This is the link to view and comment : short url = bit.ly/lawspringcleaning >>>>> >>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/16meGUp2BRB-sNQ086wrULDlyh_tUAwQw1mfRI2XPtfA/edit?usp=sharing >>>>> >>>>> I know other countries have removed outdated or offensive terms in one fell swoop - any way of doing a find-and-replace type bulk change across laws here in India? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Vaishnavi >>>> >>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Dr. Smita N. Deshpande >>>>> Head, Dept. of Psychiatry, De-addiction Services & >>>>> Resource Center for Tobacco Control, >>>>> Centre of Excellence in Mental Health >>>>> PGIMER-Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, >>>>> Park Street, New Delhi 110001 >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> Phone: 011 23404269, 23404363 >>> 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. 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..
