CHANDIGARH SHG MEET # 3 REPORT

Dear Friends, Good Afternoon, 0n 07.11.2010 sunday afternoon at 3 pm myself, Mr. Mohit, Mr. Prem and a new entry in the group Miss Jaspreet kaur met at sector 33 park. In first Pic there is Mr. Prem, Miss Jaspreet and myself. In second Pic there is Mr. Mohit , Miss Jaspreet and myself. We […]

AT LAST IT SAILED..

7th nov’10-this was the evening,i was waiting since a long.at sarvodaya colony park,1st shg MEERUT meeting took place with positive note .few days back i got a call from a pws,a mechanical engineer from gaziabad.he wanted to talk about stammer.i told him it would better if we could have a meeting.fortunately, he had some relative […]

Society changes- Bollywood stays the same..

We dont wish to gloat but many more reviews are confirming what TISA said 2 weeks back. Will the movie makers take note of this fact that we as society are not amused by poking fun at mute, stammerers, blind people? Here is another review: “..Slowly but surely humor turns to futility especially in the […]

Shall we watch Golmaal 3?

I was planning to watch Golmaal 3 so that my opposition to the treatment it gave to stammering, would rest on a stronger footing. Of course, the promos which I have seen on you tube, is enough to DAMN the movie, from my point of view: making such crass fun of disabilities is unacceptable in […]

Learning Disabilities

I was invited by Azim Premji Foundation, to dscuss learning disabiliies in a Tecaher’s conference on 3rd November at Arakot (Tiuni), on the border of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. About 50 teachers were present. I discussed role of poor vision, poor hearing, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, ADHD, Tourrette syndrome, Stammering, other social issues (eg. single parent) leading […]

हकलाना दूर करने का मंत्र . . . !

प्रिय साथियों! हकलाहट दोष के बारे में इन्टरनेट पर सर्च करते समय आजतक न्यूज़ चैनल में एक वीडिओ मिला है. जिसका लिंक यहाँ पर दे रहा हूँ. यहाँ एक अहम् सवाल यह है कि क्या आज भी हम इन अंधविश्वासों पर कैसे यकीन कर रहे हैं और क्यों न्यूज़ चैनल इस तरह की बातों को […]

हकलाहट मजाक का विषय नहीं है . . . !

‘गोलमाल ३’ फिल्म के मामले में सचिन सर और नितिन जी ने जो पहल की है वह सराहनीय है. आजकल लगभग हर हिंदी फिल्म में पात्रों से हकलाहट का अभिनय करवाकर जबरन हास्य पैदा करने की कोशिश की जा रही है. हकलाने वाले लोगों को मूर्ख और मजाक का पात्र समझाना दुखद और अमानवीय है. […]

Press meet in Herbertpr

The Herbertpur group organised a press meet (above) today and spoke to journalists from the regional media (Dainik Jagran, Dainik Prabhat, AtoZ channel) and shared our concern about the Golmaal 3: it promotes stereotypes, caricatures a health condition with significant suffering and that it will promote teasing, bullying, harassment of people and children who stammer. […]

I am wrong, wrong, WRONG..

If therapy fails, it must be my mistake..If I fail interview, I should have spoken more carefully..If people ridicule me, I must have given them the reason..If I dont get the promotion, it must be my mistake..If I am teased, I should not protest- I should act “mature”;I should take it “gracefully”..If teacher did not […]

First Success

To see our petition in the cause list:Go to: http://highcourtofuttarakhand.gov.in/Now click “cause list” in the left hand frame. In the right hand frame, you will see a drop down list or dates. Click for date: 29/10/2010 Click “go”.Daily cause list will open in the same right hand frame. Click the button “Case number wise” (right […]

Progress: Legal recourse

I am in Nainital Highcourt. The Samadhan Collective of Human Rights advocates are helping us. The petition is final and would be put up for consideration soon. Our arguments are based on some of following concerns: Such movies (based on the promos seen at Youtube and on TV) will promote teasing, harassment and discrimination against […]

Mai to atakane wala pirated CD hoon..

Mai to atakane wala pirated CD hoon..(I get stuck like the pirated CD..)Yes, this is a dialogue from Golmaal-3 !!Okay, now the class bully has one more wise-crack to tease and harass the child who stammers! How creative! The press kit of the movie has following hifalutin stuff about the producers of this movie, which […]

Online Petition

Hi all, Regarding Nitin’s post http://stammer.in/2010/10/26/humiliating-portrayal-of-stammerers-in/ , we have created the online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/TISA0001/ . Please sign the petition and also spread the word by adding it to your signatures, adding it to your status in chat softwares, forwarding mails to your friends. As Sachin said lets stand TALL this time.Thanks for your support. […]

Pune SHG – 24th Oct 2010

This Sunday we all met yet again, but this time we bid farewell to two very prominent members, viz JP and YR. The strength this time was quite impressive. We discussed about whole lot of things and cracked many jokes too. Amit told about his new company and his ordeals with the trainings. Praveen was […]

CHANDIGARH SHG MEET # 2 REPORT

Dear Friends,Good Afternoon,On 24.10.2010 sunday afternoon at 3 pm myself, Mr. Mohit, Mr. Ishan again formally met together to review our progress at sector 33 park chandigarh. With the efforts of Mr. Mohit we had 3 more visitors viz. Mr. Prem Nath from Dhuri , Mr. Prem from Fazilka and one more person whose name […]

Jaipur SHG

Luckily jaipur SHG has got one more member .His name is Agam Ambrish ,a b.tech. second year student .He has different approach towards stammering than me and Ravi ,he is very optimistic about it and don’t feel himself different than others .His approach towards stammering is really inspiring .But bouncing techinque and slow sppech didn’t […]