Hero is, who hero does.

Here is a great story: Tiger Woods writes an encouraging letter to a boy, bullied for stammering: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/tigerwoods/11601980/Tiger-Woods-writes-heartfelt-letter-to-boy-who-considered-suicide-due-to-stutter.html While growing up, I often worried, how will I fare, if I was ever called to a court to depose? Later, I did go to court to give testimony as a medical doctor couple of times. Nothing […]

Jaipur SHG Meeting Invitation

SHG Meeting on Sunday i.e. on 17th May Venue: Central Park, Gate no. 3 Timing: 4P.M. to 6P.M Let’s meet and talk about things other than stammering Agenda of meeting 1. Introduction (in 4 different manner) 2. Experience of last week 3. Discussion on stammering 4. Discussion on latest topic 5. Role of Meditation and […]

Marriage- the old ideal..

Aruna, an old TISA member has contributed this on the original meaning of marriage (Ed.):   An excerpt from talks of one of my inspirational souls! __________________________________________________________________ “Saptapadi or ‘seven steps’ is a very important rite in a Vedic marriage ceremony. At the time of marriage, the couple sit in front of the sacred fire and take seven […]

Marriage on mind?

Recently there was a discussion about marriage: Should a pws tell? Abhinav from Banglore SHG has shared his thoughts, (Ed) Last night I was going through Indian PWS mail chain in which one member from TISA family raised his concerns about marriage I read the entire chain and was shocked to see some of the […]

Bungee Jumping

Yesterday Vikas dropped in. Same Vikas- but somehow different. There was a “glow”. He was happy in his job, which gave him scope for “creative” escapades. It involved travelling around, conducting trainings, using android apps to conserve and promote water resources in remote mountains … and Bungee Jumping! He had understood one thing: Life had […]

Jaipur SHG Meeting Report dated 10th May

Hello friends We had an awesome SHG Meeting on this Sunday. We were five members – Anurag, Chandra Prakash, Omji, Mukesh and myself (Ravi). We gathered in Central Park in Jaipur at around 4PM. Omji and Mukesh were new members and are pursuing MBBS. We started off with an introduction and then we shared experience […]

You cant write me off!

Here is a frank first post from Ketan Thakare – quite interesting and inspiring! He is from Mumbai SHG. (Ed.) Well, I read the SH manual and in that the first step mentioned was the acceptance of the the fact that ‘you do stammer’. So, here I am doing just that, breaking away from shackles […]

Scroobius Pip

Ever heard of this hip-hop artist, with a stutter? Go on- check his you tube videos for “dis-fluency” and if you dont find any, wonder about it! He thinks his stutter has made him a better rap artist. Besides, he is a very caring individual and takes up social causes- like Mental health- through his […]

Invitation for Jaipur SHG Meeting on 10th May

SHG Meeting on Sunday i.e. on 10th May Venue: Central Park, Gate no. 3 Timing: 4PM – 6PM                      Let’s discomfort our comfort zone and cross all hurdles. Agenda of meeting 1. Introduction (in 4 different manner) 2. Experience of last week 3. Discussion on stammering […]

3rd Dehradun SHG at Gandhi Park, 10th May, 2015

This is to inform that 3rd Dehradun Self Help Meet will be held for People Who Stammer (PWS). The details are mentioned below: Date- 10th May, 2015 Venue- Gandhi Park Time- 5:00 pm, evening For more information, contact- Mohit Dwivedi 8057032220, 8272032220 Tushar Kukreja 8272062864

A short anecdote and a question

            Today I had a PWS visitor in my office. He is working as a service engineer with eureka forbes. After talking for sometime I came to realize that he is one of us. I was using bouncing sometimes to emphasize my identity. He was trying his best to hide […]

2nd SHG Meet Dehradun

So here we were at Gandhi Park, Dehradun for our 2nd SHG Meeting. It was 3rd May and being a Sunday the gathering at the park was good. Although, the presence of PWS was less but there is a saying, “Something is better than nothing”.  Today, there were two of us- Sumit and Mohit (WOW […]

Experience of Sahaj Marg event

Had a chance recently to be a part among  40000 abhayasis at Babuji Ashram in Lucknow. A great experience to relish. 2 days of peace and entirely different environment in the ashram premises. And to make the experience more meaningful was the company of one of my TISA friend. Did meditation for 3 hours both […]