On January 4 is celebrated the birth anniversary of Louis Braille. As he empowered the life of the visually impaired through the invention of the tactile mode of reading known as the Braille script, the day is also celebrated as the World Braille Day.
Given the era of the AI-empowered modes of sight improvement, given the aural ways of helping the affected, given the very many softwares, much better is now the life of the visually impaired than it was even a decade ago. There is, moreover, a huge awareness of the human rights of the visually impaired.
Yet has 'vision' improved? That indeed is the moot question. Unfortunately, however, the answer to this query is a big 'no'. In fact, though the physical 'sight' may have encouragingly found many a ways of improvement, 'vision' is getting dimmer and dimmer by the day.
Let us look at a few concrete examples. Remember our blog yesterday that listed a number of women who formally began teaching women, education for women as early as 1811! Yet the power of the enshrined vision is such that truth, factually established through serious scholarship, pales before a convenient casteist vision!
Such is the impairment of vision these days! Everything is now a group dependent narrative. Depending on the group you belong to, you can maraude any factual truth, too. If your victim does not belong to any power clique, not even God would be able to help her/him, as all sorts of narratives would be released to falsify a truth, a reality, a fact!
In addition to such group identity, what seems to be clouding vision is the self-centred-ness. If an immediate benefit, however small, to self is to be managed, people can trample mercilessly any relationship. Such are the blinds, the categorical imperatives Kant referred to, made of class, caste, creed kind of usual favourites to plain simple selfishness that totally blurs realities. That is the vision these days! What such victimisers do not realise is that they would sooner, and not much later, be the next victims of such a vision!
Pratima@ Opaque vision may blind many to their own imminent victimhood!
Quote of the day: "Vision," clarifies Jonathan Swift, one of the most ethical of satirists, "is the art of seeing what is invisible to most."
Word of the day:blueprint A blueprint is the vision of an enriching future. It can be a roadmap to a great vision of the future.
Let us learn grammar: We do not use any article with the uncountable nouns. We work hard so that we can earn our bread and butter, for instance. I do not like rice, but coffee is my favourite. However, when we specify the uncountable, the definite article 'the' has to be used. Let me give you an example or two. I prefer coffee to tea. The Bru coffee is better than the Nescafe. Let us avoid butter and ghee, say the nutritionists. The Amul butter and the Chitale ghee are preferred by many home-makers though.
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