Comments on: Can you see the truth?

By: Daniel's Critical Corner

Daniel's Critical Corner — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:04:11 +0000

You are such a great writer. Your words always
manage to move me !!!

By: Ritwiz

Ritwiz — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:21:02 +0000

a lot of times, you want somehting, you go where you usually get it, and you find somehting so different, it makes you think.
i came here to pass time, monotony gettin to me, happy to be among the dot coms once more (someone cut our lan wires>>we had no net since we came here>>recently got fixed).

try and remember an english lesson we had in 12th?
none of us took it ersiously then. “he” is may be helpless in your eyes, but that makes him feel more elpless than he already is. felt weird then. kinda makes sense now. think about it.

By: Manavi Kapur

Manavi Kapur — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:27:42 +0000

It’s difficult to view or rather review one’s life from the cushy and privileged bourgeois lives that we lead today. And it also takes a while to realise how unfair the govt., and the society, is to a physically challenged citizen, who has to go through the humiliation of fixed stares and pity while using any civic facility. The amenities which ought to be their right, are given to them as charity with a hint of benevolent despotism thrown in.
Helping someone in need does not necessarily translate into pity or sympathy or even superiority. But yes, it becomes crucial to be self-aware about the attitude one has towards the person while helping her/him.
It took the occurence of the Commonwealth Games for the govt. to actually introduce low floor buses which were user friendly for these people.. for any regular citizen for that matter. And yet there are people who’d rather hog seats in the buses than give it to people who’re handicapped. So not only is it difficult to be handicapped in a world which would rather turn a blind eye (excuse the pun) to it, it’s also extremely ‘inconvenient’ to be not-so-moneyed on top of it. A person can’t obviously ‘afford’ to be challenged in any which way in this survival-of-fittest day and age.

By: Anupam Guha

Anupam Guha — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:51:41 +0000

Hey hey calm down…

like nimish said.. you did something.. often we don’t have the nerve to do anything

as for the world, it runs by circumstance (not ‘mere’ circumstance, randomness is powerful), nothing really has any ‘meaning’, so all I do is play my cards best as they are dealt out to me, that’s my school of thought

don’t worry too much

By: Dinesh Kapur

Dinesh Kapur — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:11:53 +0000

Your opinions reek of a stench I cannot put into words. I am finding it hard to hold back expletives for you.

Yes we are superior to him, but only physically, and we should be grateful because what we have may not always stay with us. What kind of superiority leaves one scared and frustrated? What kind of superiority entails the lack of an answer? WHAT SUPERIORTY do you speak of?

Not, once did I feel pity for him. It is a realization that the inconvenience I face is nothing compared to his. Life is hard enough for able bodied people. Crossing the road in this country is not a simple task bucko, you speak as if you have never seen a road.

There is no school of thought doing the rounds here. I feel regret at not helping people in the need of help, people I could have helped. I don’t feel sorry for them. It is not my responsibility to help them all, I am incapable of helping even a few. I feel exasperated at the thought of the mammoth effort we need to make before we can answer questions ..

My post has no intention. I try only when I write something humorous. I wrote what I feel and as I feel.

and you are not fucking blind so don’t fucking be their voice ..

Sorry for the spite and rudeness.

By: Harish Alagappa

Harish Alagappa — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:26:11 +0000

If I were visually impaired…

1. I’d ask people to call me blind and not “visually impaired”

2. When I ask someone to help me cross the street, I’d tell him I’m blind and ask him to direct me accordingly.

The intentions of your post are good, decay. But I don’t subscribe to this school of thought even slightly. Helping people is good, but I personally felt that you portrayed this blind man as being helpless and needy of society to help him do something as simple as cross a road. There was an unintentional, but omnipresent sense of superiority in this post. How “we” ought to help “them”. How would you feel if everyone else believed it to be their responsibility to help you?

Holier-than-thou doesn’t work. Trust me, I try to pull that shit off all the time.

By: Nimish Batra

Nimish Batra — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:17:35 +0000

What kind of world do we live in?

Er… that’s too deep t be answered in our lifetime man, and after that – it’ll have changed too much for the answer to be meaningful.

I guess you did the right thing – which is a bit better than doing the normal thing… or something…

By: nickp1991

nickp1991 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:45:09 +0000

We live in an awful world and I think I can see the truth, yes

On my blog, I try to uncover the truth and I hope people will help me do that

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