As the
blinkers go on and off in the desolated roads of Connaught place, I make way
towards a place I call ‘Home’. Of course not every eye is lucky enough to see
the surreal illusions the lights create. Not every pair of ears is blessed
enough to hear the birds calling out to their mates. The point here is not to
make you feel sorry for them. It is for you to realize what all we miss even
with all the senses intact with us. Something I realized that very night as I
saw small kids snuggling into a half torn jacket. As they fought amongst each
other, hitting each other and the laughing out as one would successfully strike
at the other, a dog came into the scene. The little girl tried to shoo the dog
away, but it persisted and finally, to my amazement, I witnessed the three
nestle into that torn jacket. That tiny world seemed warm now, at least from a
distance.
When I came
across this video and the concept of “Do Right”, what struck me instantly was
the faith- the conviction was contagious, to say the least. The aim of Koshish,
the organization that facilitates the well-being and nurturing of responsible
and talented individuals who have shed off their inhibitions of being deaf and dumb
and who through creative techniques and ideas, have overcome the deterrence of
the missing senses.
Words, they’ve
meant the world to me, as far as I can remember. Hence I know, I know the
effort it takes to bring them to the mouth and blurt it out like every iota in
you, means it. Through this initiative, the team at Tata Capital wish to gift
two cameras to the extremely talented students in this organization. I
personally feel that one must at all levels support and encourage such steps
and thus, here is my small contribution to this revolution called #DoRight !
The world recognizes
that such individuals are not physically disabled. Rather, they’re differently
abled. They have the power and capability of a perspective that’s borne out of
the experience of being ‘different’. My only hope from my brethren is that they
realize the potential of what the absence of one of the senses can actually
create. I believe that India, with its army of the ailed, veiled and
differently-abled can become the super-power in the next decade if we harness
the potential that we’ve got in every eye that twinkles looking at the moon,
for not every eye can dream a sky with boundless possibilities. And if they do,
we must never let them close unless they close to blink again. Let them blink
and usher in the happiness this world deserves.
This post has been written as an entry for the 'Do Right' campaign, an initiative of TATA CAPITAL in association with INDIBLOGGER.
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