The Two Eyed Visual Impairment

Visual impairment reminds us of physically blind people but when you actually think of it, then you’ll realise that they are not blind, rather it is we who are blind in every sense of the word, with two eyes intact!! We should not call physically blind people as visually challenged. Let us not mix the words visually challenged with physical blindness. Blind people are not visually challenged, rather we are. In fact, we need to protect and preserve such people, because in its true sense, “humanity” is stored in them only. I feel they are the storehouses of humanity world-wide!! They are the people who should be protected if we want to preserve humanity.
There are umpteen reasons for this. I will try to put forth some. They are the people who can never discriminate – racially; on looks or in other physical sense for them physical beauty holds no meaning. They can relate beauty only to a beautiful mind or a beautiful heart. In fact, we should consult them for the purpose of judging a person.
They are not ,handicapped; in fact they make us handicapped, because no matter how hard we try, we can never deceive them by our looks.
They don’t know how a Brahmin looks like, how a Dalit person looks like, how an Afro-american looks like. For them all are at the same footing. They do not even know how a shadow looks like so they cannot discriminate between a Brahmin’s shadow and a Dalit’s shadow. Hence, a Dalit person’s shadow would make no difference to them, as it might make to some people who disapprove of them and consider their shadow as the befalling of misfortune.
They can never tease a girl, irrespective of her appearances, who walks past them. They do not know what is vulgar or obscene. For them a girl would be a girl no matter how she looks.
They know a cat only by its softness and sound and therefore for them black cat as a bad omen holds no ground. They do not know how back looks like and what does it signify, until and unless we feed it in their minds. Thankfully they can be saved from so many superstitions!! They can escape many complexes as well, that our visual capacity leads us to. It is said that even Krishna, the “Lord” could not escape such a complex and sang a song, saying,”Radha kyon gori, main kyon kala” (why is Radha fair and why am I dark.). It seems only blind people have the potential of rising above such complexes!
They remain the purest of the souls until and unless we feed in their minds and make them aware of all sorts of negative meanings and differences. We, who think of ourselves as complete human beings, with two eyes and all organs intact, are the most defected of the lot. It is we, who think of ourselves to be high on intelligence, have taken away the purity of human kind. It is we, who have divided the world into binary opposites like – good Vs bad; beautiful Vs ugly; male Vs female; upper caste Vs lower caste; black Vs white, and the list seems endless. We have given so much power to our visual senses that we have lost all “vision”. We have become visionless people. We are so much blinded by our own eyes that we have stopped thinking at all.
So, are not blind people, amazingly beautiful souls? So don’t we need to protect them? So from the next time when you see a blind person crossing the road, slow down your vehicle, if you think you are not visually challenged. Next instance is that, if you see a seat in the bus, which a blind person is not ale to locate, then please make them sit so that you do not prove yourself to be visually challenged. Next time if you see them in trouble or being fooled, then immediately do something about it if you really think you are not visually challenged.
Make this world a better place to live so that when they get eyes and are able to see at any point of their life, they do not feel disappointed. And please do donate your eyes.

The Ailing Indian journalism

Indian journalism is in an ailing state. This statement should not be taken in any way as a diparaging one, rather it is an exigency to brood over such statements and not act like our politicians who seem to be so sensitive that they get hurt by almost anything and try to trap the people by their uselessly flowery language, packed with jargon.
Indian journalism is suffering from the paucity of thoughts, wisdom and most of all, vision! It has to come out of its delerium in order to delineate the real sensible and sensitive picture, which just gets lost in the process of vying for controversial news items. In this virulent process and intention, everything becomes and remains just another story. Every issue gets reduced to just a story as any other soap opera story. Every issue, every misahp, every tragedy is seen, heard and forgotten, not even as a drea, because dreams are still pursued, but these issues are never pursued, atleast never with a wholehearted intension to trigger off some necessary changes, which is very much needed.

India seems to be producing simply mechanical reporting machines instead of journalists in the true sense of the word. Journalism has become just another job. It seems who cannot do anything can become a lawyer or a journalist. Media houses and news channels have just become irresponsible profit making business houses.

This is the reason why journalism in India is losing its worth and is being kicked around by any tom, dick and harry.

Right now it is in a very shameful state, indeed!!