Hai Shadab: It's nice to know about your enthusiasm to write about blindness. Unfortunately, few people have really tried describing what it is to live or experience life with blindness. As UNCRPD clearly says, this is the way you experience life, where the sense of touch and the feelings of your heart takes the place of seeing. A lot of my sighted colleagues and friends have told me that not seeing is sometimes a good thing. This is not a patronising statement, but a practical one wherein the person beside you is glad that you are not seeing the gory, heart renching things like an accident or a murder as they do. They can shut their eyes, but most people don't realise they have such an option. Well, I gave this example as to how experiences of seeing and feeling things can be different. The best thing to read is R. K. Narayan's profile of veteran VI journalist Ved Mehta. Actually Mehta profiled Narayan for the New Yorker magazine. So impressed was Narayan that he returned the favour by profiling Mehta for the same magazine I think. Pl do a google search on Ved Mehta. I heard his memoir is also said to be inspiring. Do a lot of reading before you venture to write. We have a funny saying about doctors in Tamil: a true doctor is one who had killed a thousand people... Same way if you kill a thousand characters and create a truely memorable one, you are a good writer. So all the best for your venture. Go ahead and write your epic.
regards, Subramani On 12/29/11, Swati Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > 1) Beat the person has topped the school/ college/ X board/ XII board. > 2) He is the Highest scorer of any competitive exam. > 3) holds officer rank in his office. > 4) Participated in any sports on State/ National/ International level. > > Frankly speaking, the points that I mentioned are on practical grounds. The > fact is all the work that a VI does is from his 4 senses only, and his work > is equivalent to that of the sighted people. > > For more information, you can read success stories of VI persons. > The books are available at NAB and AICB. > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 4628 (20091122) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > 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 > > -- L. Subramani, Snr. Subeditor, Deccan Herald, Bangalore, M: 91-9886046612 "You see and ask why? I dream and ask why not?" 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
