tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post4863726043901426387..comments2023-12-04T20:18:25.020+05:30Comments on Jag's Blog: Disabled FriendlyAnil Jagalurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845606104258184363noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post-81592304481112629662009-07-04T08:33:30.553+05:302009-07-04T08:33:30.553+05:30"Makes me feel that ours is a terrible countr..."Makes me feel that ours is a terrible country manned by a terrific people."<br /><br />You have summed it up aptly !nagrajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16354196552890063081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post-79249269445678534942009-04-22T13:01:00.000+05:302009-04-22T13:01:00.000+05:30This situation makes me feel sad always. `Disabled...This situation makes me feel sad always. `Disabled friendly features' is one thing I constantly noticed when we visited the US and the UK. Here, they are made to live without dependence and also to live with dignity.<br /><br />Here is one instance: We were traveling in a bus in the Stanford Univ. campus when suddenly the driver stopped the bus and pressed a button. The level of the front portion of the bus came down and stood at the level of the foot path. As we looked on, an African American student, a dwarf, wheeled himself into the bus. He actually had no arms and his palms with very little fingers were attached to his shoulders. Legs were also very very small. His wheel chair was made in such a way that he himself could operate it with his fingers. The driver lifted a three seater and fixed it to the body of the bus, thus making place for the wheel chair. The student wheeled himself to this place and adjusted its position. The driver pulled out a long seat belt and fastened it around the wheel chair. Again, just a press of a button brought the front portion of the bus back to its original level, and the driver proceeded. After a few stops, the driver stopped the bus at a place where the student wanted to get down, helped him wheel out of the bus and continued further. { No need to say I remembered (with moist eyes) my dear one- who has difficulty walking.}<br /><br />Sounds like a fairy tale, right? Can you imagine such a situation in our country? The disabled are snatched away of their right to lead a normal life. And I am sure that the student I saw, will have without anybody's assistance visited his library, class room, watched movie in a theatre, done shopping and visited even the toilet. Such are the facilities that the people here are provided.<br /><br />Yes, the people who man our country are heartless and they shamelessly fight for the money providable chair. How can they ever understand the feelings of the millions of wheel chair bound citizens of the country? Disgusting.<br /><br />BrindaBrindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662836227696601747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post-4084916800454283602009-04-21T08:01:00.000+05:302009-04-21T08:01:00.000+05:30Great post - and that ATM like thing is so heartwa...Great post - and that ATM like thing is so heartwarming, really. <br /><br />I realized how disabled-unfriendly we are when I was laid up for six weeks with a ligament tear in my ankle.Shruthihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00635222842257175541noreply@blogger.com