Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[sampath raj rao]

That's true, mindset has to undergo a radical change...atleast with
our colleagues and surrounds infact despite their daily encounter and
interaction with us their mindset remains unchanged...


On 11/14/15, Ajay Minocha <ajayminoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Very well said Vamshi sir!
>
> On 11/14/15, George Abraham <geo...@eyeway.org> wrote:
>> Turab,
>>
>> This is a good account of what is going around. Mind sets form the basic
>> problem.
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] 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 HI. 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
>>
>>
>>
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>> mobile phones / Tabs on:
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Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[Asudani, Rajesh]

Dear Turab

People usually lack the capacity to interpret the implications of disabilities, 
more so sensory disabilities and come up with concrete assistance without 
indignity.


It is our task to make everybody around us aware and not blame them.

Usually actions proceed from ignorance, foolishness, negligence, habit and so 
on rather than bad intentions.

However, a good beginning.

Keep on writing.


सादर / With thanks & Regards
राजेश आसुदानी Rajesh Asudani
सहायक महाप्रबन्धक AGM
बाजार आसूचना ईकाई MIU
भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक Reserve Bank of India
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VIBEWA
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A-pilll = Action coupled with Positivity, Interest, Love, Logic and laughter.


-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of 
turab chimthanawala
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 1:20 PM
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 HI. 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



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Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[Vamshi. G]

Hi Turab,

No one denies that the society's attitude towards VI should improve.
But this article sounds too synical.  In many instances, we get lot of
help from people around us.  Whenever I stand on a road holding the
cane waiting for someone, I see someone coming to me and asking if I
need any help.  You wrote in the article that you are partially
sighted which is very difficult for others to understand.   For
example, if you had told the man who commented about you while seeing
the note that you don't have proper vision, his reaction could have
been different.  I had been a person with low vision in the past, and
faced situations of head nods, waving hands,etc.  For persons with low
vision, communication of our condition is necessary as well as
important to make others comfortable with us. Even for totally blind,
letting others know how we want them to be with us makes things
better.  Having said all this, I completely agree with you on the fact
that our infrastructure has miles to go to be anywhere near to ideal
for disabled!

On 11/14/15, turab chimthanawala  wrote:
> 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 HI. 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
>
>
>
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Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[George Abraham]

Turab,

This is a good account of what is going around. Mind sets form the basic 
problem. 

-Original Message-
From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] 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 HI. 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



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Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[Ajay Minocha]

Very well said Vamshi sir!

On 11/14/15, George Abraham <geo...@eyeway.org> wrote:
> Turab,
>
> This is a good account of what is going around. Mind sets form the basic
> problem.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] 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 HI. 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
>
>
>
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Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[Ajay Minocha]

Entirely unreadable, you could have pasted the text in the email.
Please do that if possible.

On 11/12/15, turab chimthanawala  wrote:
> Hi list members
> Despite the development of latest low vision gadgets,
> improved infrastructure facilities, enactment of Disabilities Act and
> starting Accessible India campaigns to help us lead a normal life what
> really must change is the attitude of so-called 'normal' people
> towards disabled  people. Here is my article on the old fashioned and
> narrow-minded attitude of people towards visually impaired published
> on 10th November in The Hitvada Nagpur edition.
> http://www.ehitavada.com/hitavadanew.aspx?lang=6=2015-11-10=NCpage=2015-11-10#NCpage_5
> Best
> Turab
>
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Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[turab chimthanawala]

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 HI. 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



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Re: [AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[Radha]

Sir,

For your information, the article lacks screen reader friendliness..


On 11/13/15, Ajay Minocha  wrote:
> Entirely unreadable, you could have pasted the text in the email.
> Please do that if possible.
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> On 11/12/15, turab chimthanawala  wrote:
>> Hi list members
>> Despite the development of latest low vision gadgets,
>> improved infrastructure facilities, enactment of Disabilities Act and
>> starting Accessible India campaigns to help us lead a normal life what
>> really must change is the attitude of so-called 'normal' people
>> towards disabled  people. Here is my article on the old fashioned and
>> narrow-minded attitude of people towards visually impaired published
>> on 10th November in The Hitvada Nagpur edition.
>> http://www.ehitavada.com/hitavadanew.aspx?lang=6=2015-11-10=NCpage=2015-11-10#NCpage_5
>> Best
>> Turab
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[AI] (AI) Need for change in attitude of people towards visual impairment

[turab chimthanawala]

Hi list members
Despite the development of latest low vision gadgets,
improved infrastructure facilities, enactment of Disabilities Act and
starting Accessible India campaigns to help us lead a normal life what
really must change is the attitude of so-called 'normal' people
towards disabled  people. Here is my article on the old fashioned and
narrow-minded attitude of people towards visually impaired published
on 10th November in The Hitvada Nagpur edition.
http://www.ehitavada.com/hitavadanew.aspx?lang=6=2015-11-10=NCpage=2015-11-10#NCpage_5
Best
Turab



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