Hi friends: Have made a blogpost from an excerpt of the memoir I’m working on. Please read and give me your valuable feedback.
My tryst with blindness: As a child, I was bullied for wearing eye glasses The neighborhood school where I studied, amidst the chaos of the vegetable market nearby and the peal of bells from the temple opposite the building, was as noisy as the scene outside. Kids ran helter-skelter, teachers had a hard time shouting over the babble of little voices. It wasn’t the kind of atmosphere for learning. As a nine-year-old, I didn’t care much. I escaped the teacher’s censure by scoring just enough marks, made fewer friends and frequently found myself in the middle of bullies who teased me about my spectacle. Being the only guy in the class with eye glasses meant that I stood out and the bullies had no troubles picking me out. The fact that I wore eye glasses must’ve had a deeper effect than I could figure, because I didn’t reach out and make friends despite being gregarious as a child growing up in a large family. I was mostly reticent and considered weird given my strange interest in the news headlines the teacher read out in the morning assembly, about the only thing that grabbed my interest. “I watch your sorry face light up. Is the useless junk in the papers so interesting? Who do you take yourself for? Some kind of a newsreader? Oh look at him man, all blushing…” It was Jaikumar, resident of Jambrathottam, the market area where we were warned not to enter because it was often the flashpoint for gang wars. We never knew what ‘gang wars’ were, but followed the orders. https://grapplingwithrp.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/my-tryst-with-blindness-as-a-child-i-was-bullied-for-wearing-eye-glasses/ 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..
