Disabled People- In or Out of our lives

Today we had the screening of movies by the third year students. One of the movies was on blind people. We by the end of the movie had a lot of issues coming up about whether talking to blind in terms of normal human beings who experience the sense of sight was acceptable, right or insulting or underestimating them. I realized how less we knew about them and how we categorized all the blind into one thought process. The fact that every year the prime minister on the ‘world disabled day’ gives a speech where he always and forever seems to repeat the sentence that this should not be the only day when we address these people. But nonetheless, he always seems to forget about them the next morning he wakes up.

I really wanted that common community groups and institutions should have a system in which interaction with the disabled is not a ‘big’ and ‘novel’ deed. when all sections of society are being included in the mainstream in view of making an egalitarian society, these people should not be left behind and still treated as specials or guests in our lives.