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People with Disabilities and the Recession
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: May 17, 2009
With the recession, tough economic times are upon most of us. Companies continue to maintain their freeze on recruitment, salary cuts are common, and layoffs informed to employees an hour before the end of the week. Non written communication to work longer hours is common place. Most people are glad they can retain their job, [...]
Shut up and vote
Posted by: nagarajmani on: April 7, 2009
It’s only a slim rectangular paper, with a black and white picture of me, but on top of the paper is prominently written, ‘Voters Identity’ card and I look at it with pride and joy.
Most young people begin voting at 18, when the country and law recognizes them as ‘major’ in age. At 18, they [...]
How secure are women with disabilities?
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: February 17, 2009
How secure are women with
disabilities?
Recently I heard of two incidents which made me ask myself this very question, how secure are women with disabilities (WwD)?
In one incident a young mother of 35 hung her two teenage daughters both intellectually challenged, and herself. I guess she got tired of the pressures of life, the social [...]
Teaching aid
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: January 15, 2009
Teaching aid on
‘Inclusion of Children with Autism’
Teaching aids for children with disabilities are scare and far between, and so it is a great effort that the National Trust recently published a Handbook for teachers on ‘Inclusion of Children with Autism’
Interestingly it is also available for free download
Meeting a Deafblind lawyer
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: January 13, 2009
Meeting a deaf-blind lawyer,
Mr. Riku Virtanen
Recently, thanks to a programme organized by the Bangalore Unit of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) and the Society for Human Rights, Bangalore, I was able to have my first ever meeting with a deaf-blind person. Mr. Riku Virtanen is a lawyer who specializes in human rights and hails [...]
Listening to her heart
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: January 12, 2009
Listening to her heart
Disability rights activist Michele Friedner, who has severe bilateral hearing loss herself, is now studying how disability is tackled in everyday life. Bharathi Prabhu has the details
“Hmmm, my achievements? Getting a gas connection, wrangling for a research permit from the Commissioner of police, braving Bangalore traffic….” ticks off Michele Friedner on her [...]
Disabled excluded from places of worship
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: January 6, 2009
Disabled excluded from places of
worship
I have numerous friends who are affected by polio or have suffered spinal injuries and so, are wheelchair bound. And I was astounded to note that few if any had access to places of worship, be it Temples or Churches.
Religion is undoubtedly a private issue but each of us have [...]
Accessibility
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: December 16, 2008
Making the Kala Madhyam Arts Mela
‘Accessible’
While the Kala Madhyam Arts Mela was undoubtedly a fantastic initiative, we who were there along with Nagaraj, who is wheelchair bound, could not help but notice that accessibility for people with disabilities way grossly overlooked. With steps leading to a major part of the stalls, including the little [...]
Right to life?
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: December 10, 2008
Does an unborn child with disability
have the right to life?
Dear All, I’m sure those of you who hear the news on television have been hearing the news about how the Bombay High Court on 4th August 2008 rejected the plea of Niketa and Harish Mehta’s to abort their 24-week-old foetus.
Doctors say their unborn child [...]
Lillian @ Poetry
- Advertising Cloud 9The horizon in shades of green,Water tanks, blue and black,Clothes of all hues waving in the breeze.Cloud 9 advertising its services,Who would think, it would need to?But it does,Its the recession.
- Untitledoh why does my soul refuse to rest.it bounds up,against gravity,like there were thorns that pricked its underside.refusing it rest.oh my soul has a bloody breasta weary heartthat longs to rest,but somehow each night is dayin its unending search to run away.
- UntitledI stare out,As the orange-pink of sunsetFades away into silhouettes,Large dark trees, rise upAnd the cold road leads away.The breeze whips at my face,The curtains buffeted in the strong wind,Fly around uncontrollably like shreds,My heart feels the same,As it leaves sweet memories behind.Parting can never be harder.15th April 2009
- Happy Women’s Day?.......... I beg your pardonIts 8th March, International Women’s DayBut she doesn’t know it.She wakes up at 6.00 a.m,like she has for the last 12 years,her mental clock and love for her family helps her up.she fills the rice into the cooker, chops up the vegetables in the yellow light of the bulb.The chickens in their coop stir, at the first break of light.the brass pot rolls down on t […]
- Un-namedI want to writeBut wordsTremble within meThen die.I dig through my memoryFor experiencesFor verseBut all I find is gooey morass.I yearn to riseBe the bestBut the forceEludes meA phantom. There they areThe first buds of springOr is it a mirageThe sightings of a deluded soul8th February 2008
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