'संवाद' के लिए आमंत्रण

टीसा के न्यूज़लेटर 'संवाद' के दो अंक हम आप तक पंहुचा चुके है. अपने ताजा अंक में हमने हिंदी सेक्सन की शुरूआत की है. इस तरह हम अधिक से अधिक लोगों से जुड़ना चाहते हैं. 'संवाद' के आगामी अंक में हम पाठकों से उनके विचार, सुझाव और अनुभव को शामिल करना चाहते हैं.

अगर पाठक हिंदी में अपने आलेख और अनुभव भेजना चाहें तो उन्हें प्रकाशित करने में हमें प्रसन्नता होगी. यह जरूरी नहीं की आप एक लेखक की तरह लिख पाए आप जिस रूप में भी हकलाहट दोष के बारे में हिंदी में लिख सकते हैं, लिखकर ई-मेल द्वारा भेज दें, हम उन्हें उचित स्थान देंगे.

साथ ही हकलाहट दोष के बारे में कोई कविता, कहानी या सक्सेस स्टोरी देना चाहें तो वह भी दे सकते है. हिंदी में अपनी रचनाएँ amitsk68@gmail.com पर मेल करें.

--
Amitsingh Kushwah,
Indore (M.P.)
Mobile No. 093009-39758

The Ice-breaker

Dear Friends, 

Yesterday (16th November), I delivered my first speech (Project 1) in the Goa Toastmaster's Club. It was followed with a pleasant surprise, because it was later announced that I was voted as the best speaker of the day! It gave me a great deal of confidence to start my Toastmaster's career by having voted as the "Best Speaker". I was elated...

It was certainly a confidence booster. I have no words to express my gratitude towards my friends, my friends in TISA, and my fellow members of Toastmasters club for all the encouragement... 

Manohar, you pioneered the way to Toastmaster's. Mr. Jasbir Sandhu you took the same path and showed us that we all can excel in it... You both inspired me in my journey with Toastmasters, which I am now looking forward to continue...

(Speech Video Embedded)

My new chandigarh number

Hi all,

I have permanently moved to chandigarh. Plz note down my new number : 9915686678.

regards,

JP

Getting married

Hi Friends,

I am happy to announce that i am getting married on Nov 28th 2010. The marriage will be in Patna, Bihar.

Treat this as my personal invitation, please do come and grace the occasion.

Thanks,

sujit,

sujit3091@gmail.com, 9011067069

TISA initiates a Self Help Group in Indore (M.P.)

Indore. The Indian Stammering Association (TISA) has initiated a self-help group(SHG) in the city of Indore. The group has been initiated by Amitsingh Kushwah and Parmendrasingh Bundela. The group meetings are being held every Sunday evening 4 to 6 pm.

Golmaal 3 – Or should I say Tod Maal?

Rohit Shetty is back again with the third version of his Golmaal series. The promos did give a clear indication that it would again be that “forget-your-brain-at-home” kind of movie. But are the audience that stupid? Or is the Director stupid? Golmaal 3 is a clumsy effort of making people laugh… Sheer waste of money and of course – talent!

Shot in Goa, the story revolves around two notorious groups of siblings – Gopal [Ajay Devgan] and his brother Laxman [Shreyas Talpade] and their best friend Daboo [Kareena Kapoor], and Madhav [Harshad Warsi] and his two brothers, Laxman [Kunal Khemu] and Lucky [Tusshar Kapoor]. They incidentally end up starting the same kind of business financed by two different underworld gangsters [Johny Lever and Tiwari] and in trying to outdo each other, find themselves in serious quarrels which are supposedly funny!

In between the quarrels, the Mother [Geeta – Ratna Pathak Shah] and Father [Pritam – Mithun Chakrawarthy] remember their 30-year old incomplete love story and decide to marry. The marriage invites more (to audiences’ dismay) quarrels… and the rest is… no not history, but forgotten.

Claimed to be a laugh riot, Golmaal 3 seems to rely upon cheap comedy like tumbling cars, breaking stalls, shops and glasses, pants falling down and slaps. The dialogs also look like they have been borrowed from a book of children’s jokes or comics -“Jiske ghar sheeshe ke hote hai, woh basement mein kapde change karte hai” and referring an aged man as “Doobti hui Titanic”… to mention a few.

During the entire movie I could only see things breaking and cars flying and bursting and people thrown in the air as if they are made of paper. In fact there is nothing that is not left broken in this movie. They didn’t even spare the fingers! The movie would have been better named if it was called – Tod Maal.

Of the cast, Ajay Devgan and Harshad Warsi are the most noticeable, but yet they can perform little apart from shouting aloud. The other lot of actors are all great actors, but they have very little to show their talent. Even the veterans- Mithun and Ratna Pathak Shah are wasted. Technically, the kinds of stunts shown are seen a zillion times in Hindi movie. The story- well there is none! There is certainly a better way to make people laugh! You don’t need to break tens of dozens of cars and tens of stalls. If you don’t believe me Mr. Rohit Shetty, then watch Golmaal by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and learn a lesson or two about quality humour.

In the pretext of mockery on stammering and disabilities-
We know a public litigation has been filed against Golmaal 3 for it’s mockery on stammering. And the decision stands vindicated. To give a glimpse, the PWS is referred to as the “Speed-Breaker”. The mockery still continues with dialogues like – “Jab cricket khelne jayega, toh 20-20 ki jagah 200-200 kehlega” and “Doosra toh bo-bo-bo-bo-bolte bolte shaadi ho jayegi…”.

The mockery is also towards dumb people. What effect are we trying to have on children’s minds when an aged person is referred as – “Doobti hui Titanic”? All I can say is – Grow up!!

With regards to the petition, I was looking for any apologies during the screening of Golmaal 3. All I could notice was an usual disclaimer - "All characters in this film are fiction and blah blah...". And another one that says - "The dog used in this movie is a dummy, and no cruelty is commited towards any animal...." It's amazing how the director and the producer are more worried about animal cruelty, and are not even concerned about humans disabilities, its mockery and the impact on their minds! Well, atleast he has made all the dogs happy!

ABC of Advocacy..

Here are some random thoughts on advocacy, especially self advocacy ie. being advocates for our own issues.

1. You must have an opinion. There may be no law supporting it at the moment BUT, your constitution gives you a RIGHT to have an opinion. And this opinion should be well considered and firm- not swayed by the first criticism on or off Internet!

2. Share and discuss your opinion and concerns with others: talk, write, talk-talk, write-write..Use every conceivable means to spread your thoughts- web, newspaper, Footer of your email, write to other blogs, start one; write letters to editors or officers concerned (more)..
But remain respectful during discussions. You dont want to violate somebody else's human rights to differ, in order to defend your human rights, do you? At all times, Expect that hardly one percent of human beings will welcome a new idea, especially if it involves personal change or action, however small even if signing a petition.. (talk to Nitin Tomar about this!)

3. Next, find out the legal position. Is there any law or right being violated here? Remember, anything which diminishes your right to a life of Human dignity is violation of your Human rights.

4. Get in touch with a Civil society organization (voluntary agency) specializing in advocacy work. Work with them- help them with research and mobilize your community. Plan long term and plan strategically.

5. Work with media judiciously. Dont ignore them.

Above all, you must have an OPINION and inner strength to state it PUBLICLY. Otherwise you have no case.. and lastly, since you want others to understand and support you, be open to other people's concerns and issues- and support them, whenever you can.. It is two way street.

Finally learn, learn, LEARN. (more)
PS: self-advocacy is the best "speech therapy", you can ever have.

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 welcomed jaspreet in the group. Jaspreet has done B.Sc. Nursing and is preparing for IAS. With the induction of a lady we hope that the group will become more responsible. The meeting started with laughter session. After that we did 2 meditations for relaxation and strenghthening of brain , followed by exercises to relax speech organs. Then we read paras from newspapers in slow prolongation method. Need for total acceptance of our problem from heart was again reiterated, which is a must and first step towards recovery. The need for purity of life was also discussed , which releases much of stress and ultimately helps in smooth speech. Voluntry stuttering was also practised. We all pledged to devote at least 1 hour daily for our speech. All shared their experiences. The group remained together for around 2 hours . As all the time most of the talk was done by undersigned only. Each member was requested to participate more next time. Further members were also requested to motivate their known PWS to join the group.

The meeting ended with laughter session and promise to meet next sunday. We dispersed after hot tea.

jasbir sandhu,

Cell 99150 06377

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 in meerut ,today he had come to see them.after introducing ourself.we started to share our experinences.he wanted to get rid of his stammerso that he could have bright future.while talking to him slowly i started to tell aboutthe basics of stammering i learnt at workshop conducted on jan'10.i told him about bouncing,prolongation,voluntary stuttering and ofcourse about acceptance.we shared our views on fluency and commuincation.we were agree that it is communication which matters not how much fluent we are.we both are chronic covert stammerers and we agreed on we have to work on that.we discussed paper of russ hicks on acceptance which proved to be very good starter.later we talked about shg,its importance and benefits of helping other.i showed him the quotation related to stammering which i clicked at workshop when at vikas nagar.i introduced him with tisa,its website and objective.at last he said that he was feeling much lighter and hopeful after this session.with two person on board today our shg meerut boat sailed....

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 films of recent times be it Bollywood or Tollywood or what ever wood it is. Director Rohit Shetty wagered around with mere insertion of farce uncalled for, in the film Golmaal 3. The viewers are forced to tickle their own ribs for the cash they paid. At times the buffoonish deeds of the stars caused irritation. Should the films steep down to the extent that the dumb and stammering individuals are sneered at for the sake of the funny side? Anyways it's a film after all. One has to bear at the cost of his/her patience." More.

One more review..

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 this day and age. We deserve more creative, inclusive and mature humor, as a society.

Then, I saw this review; I am quoiting some parts. This main stream review further proves (if at all needed) that it is a poorly made pathetic movie, out to make some money - because, I guess, the movie maker assumes: viewers will consume anything during festival season!

"Negative Points:

I am helpless and not able to understand from where I have to start!

Bollywood is trying triple sequel for the first time ever with Golmaal 3 and one feels sad that we are entering this new stage with this type of crap. If Director Rohit thinks that car accidents, destroying of shops and houses, finger breaking (Ajay broke almost more than 10 fingers in whole movie), extremely loud dialogues and action without reason is comedy then he really needs to quite movie making.

Worst thing of the movie is its screenplay. Golmaal means fraud, missing identities, lies and trying to hide something. But, unfortunately movie does not have any fake identity, no fraud for quick money and no cheating. Audience enters in the hall with the expectations of nonstop comedy but true comedy is hardly there. Yes lots of emotional scenes between Mithun and Ratna catch the audience attraction but we are not watching Golmaal for emotions and serious cinema.

No story at all. Movie starts with introduction of all characters. Then Johny lever’s necklace stealing and hiding in Mithun’s bag. Then love story of both old characters then fight between all boys and movie ends. That’s it. If it is a screenplay then I have 10 screenplays in my bag which are better than this.

OK, everything I can forget if we are laughing in every second scene. But, unfortunately Golmaal is not able to make you laugh. At least I can’t laugh on unnecessary action, car chasing and finger breaking. If you love them may be you will enjoy."

More: http://www.naachgaana.com/2010/11/03/golmaal-3-movie-review-by-nauman-1-55/

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 to emotional issues, which affect class room intercations.

I discovered that the teachers (barring few) have very low awareness on these issues. Stereotypes abound. They have little access to good, balanced, objective and latest information on these "marginal" issues. Teacher should have been the first and most important pillar of our society- but realities of life. politics and governance have pushed her and him to the periphery!

I showed them the video clips dealing with Tourrette syndrome and stammering. I also showed them Golmaal 3 promo, followed by video clips of genuine appeal by two PWS. The vast difference in the two: the way mainstream media stereotypes a stammerer- contrasted by the reality out there, the way a genuine PWS talks on camera, was very obvious and the audience was stunned. TISA, besides advocacy (legal and online), should promote awareness and education, wherever it can. Unless people know that stammering is a disease, that genes responsible for it have been identified, they will go on believing that it is a "laughable habit". And children who stammer, will continue to be teased and bullied.

PS: Soon after reaching there- unhon ne mujhe topi pehna di! (see the Himachali cap on my head!). I thank Azim Premji Foundation and all the teachers for their hospitality and interest.

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 बढ़ावा दे रहे हैं?

"वाणी मंत्र का प्रयोग हकलाना दूर करने के लिए किया जाता है. इस मंत्र को संध्‍या समय 7 दिन तक लगातार तीन बार उच्‍चारण करने से हकलाना कम होता है. मंत्र है: नारायणं नमस्‍कृत्‍य, नरं चैव नोत्तमम्, देवीं सरस्‍वतीं व्‍यासम्, ततो वाणीमुदीरयेत्"

http://aajtak.intoday.in/videoplay.php/videos/view/23680/1/2

- Amit Singh Kushwah,
Indore (Bharat)
Mo. 093009-39758

BEST SPEAKER AWARD IN CHANDIGARH TOASTMASTERS CLUB.

Dear Friends,

Good Afternoon,

On 30.10.2010 I gave my third speech in Chandigarh Toastmasters Club and was awarded the Best Speaker Prize. My topic was Sting Operation, its background, necessity, types , its problems and present position.

Please watch the video and offer comments.

jasbir sandhu, chandigarh.

cell 99150 06377

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.

मै अकसर सोचता था की फिल्मों में हकलाहट दोष से सम्बंधित दृश्य और संवाद नहीं दिखाए जाने चाहिए. अगर दिखाना ही है तो यह दिखाया जाना चाहिए कि कैसे हकलाहट दोष की बाधा को पार कर लोग हर छेत्र में काम कर रहे हैं और सामान्य बोलने वालों के साथ कंधे से कन्धा मिलकर चल रहे हैं.

तीसा के द्वारा जो कोशिश की गई है उससे फिल्म बनाने वालों को एक बार सोचने पर बाध्य होना पड़ेगा की हकलाहट वास्तव में क्या है, और यह मजाक का विषय नहीं हो सकता. मेरा तो यह सुझाव है की सभी साथी 'गोलमाल ३' के निर्माता, निर्देशक, लेखक और फिल्म सेंसर बोर्ड को अलग-अलग पत्र लिखकर अपनी नाराज़गी जाहीर करे जिससे आगे चलकर कोई हकलाने वालों को मजाक के तौर पर फिल्म में प्रस्तुत न करे.

- अमितसिंह कुशवाह,
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