The sightless visionary
Because the ones crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. And we will take Steve Jobs' word for it. Crazy is someone who parts the odds sea and makes her/his way through it, leading the way for countless many.
Meet Srikanth Bolla, a man who parted such a sea hell-full of odds, let loose not by the fact that he was born blind, but a society that has yet to open its eyes to human possibilities.
Our society has a tendency of measuring future potential with ones' circumstances at birth. An actor's child will be an actor, a politician's son will be the future neta and these labels have worked, quite successfully for generations before us. So why wouldn't one assume that a poor farmer's son,
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Encouraged by his tutors and peers at MIT, and with the immense help of one of his special education teachers, Swarnalatha, founded Samanvai, a non-profit organization aimed at helping disabled students to reach their goals. With aids like training and braille digital libraries, Samanvai has been helping thousands of students since 2012.
He didn't want to stop yet. The next question he wanted to address was how to increase job opportunities for the disabled. In 2012, Srikanth started Bollant Industries Pvt. Ltd. which staffs a majority of differently-abled and/or financially challenged workers, with five plants in Karnataka and Telangana, one of which he aims at being completely solar powered. The company manufactures eco-friendly, disposable consumer packaging solutions with areca leaf and re-cycled paper. With annual sales going beyond Rs. 70 million, he is even exporting his products to Australia, US and Germany.
His vision has managed to attract angel investor Ravi Mantha, who has taken Srikanth under his mentorship and with big name investors like Ratan Tata, Satish Reddy of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and Srini Raju of Peepul Capital, Bollant Industries Pvt Ltd is well on its way to becoming an
In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, vision is a metaphor for perceptive growth. During Book One, Reuven is naïve, and he fails to see through the eyes of others. However, after he meets Danny, the two boys progress into Book Two with more empathetic and mature eyes. In Book Three, at the end of the novel, the two boys – now young men – have grown perceptively to see and understand the paradox of the significance and insignificance of their existences.
I'd like to read Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as the odyssey of one man's search for identity. Try this scenario: the narrator is briefly an academic, then a factory worker, and then a socialist politico. None of these "careers" works out for him. Yet the narrator's time with the so-called Brotherhood, the socialist group that recruits him, comprises a good deal of the novel. The narrator thinks he's found himself through the Brotherhood. He's the next Booker T. Washington and the new voice of his people. The work he's doing will finally garner him acceptance. He's home.
Blindness in Raymond Carver's Cathedral Blindness creates a world of obscurity only to be overcome with guidance from someone willing to become intimate with the blind. Equally true, the perceptions of blindness can only be overcome when the blind allow intimacy with the sighted. Raymond Carver, with his short story Cathedral, illustrates this point through the eyes of a man who will be spending an evening with a blind man, Robert, for the first time. Not only does this man not know Robert, but his being blind, "bothered" (Carver 98) him.
“Cathedral,” a short story written by Raymond Carver, presents an intriguing story of an ignorant man 's lesson. During this story, Carver 's working class characters are crushed by broken marriages, financial issues, and fulfilling jobs, but they are frequently unable to understand or communicate their own sufferings. However, the main story consists of the narrator, known as “Bub,” facing an internal conflict about a blind man named Robert staying the night in his home. Regardless of the fact that this blind man is his wife 's long time friend, the narrator cannot find himself comfortable with such an idea because of his extreme prejudices. Although, despite the narrator’s conflict he finds himself connecting to Robert on a more personal
prove to be blind when it comes to the world they are in. By looking
Coming of age is essential to the theme of many major novels in the literary world. A characters journey through any route to self-discovery outlines a part of the readers own emotional perception of their own self-awareness. This represents a bridge between the book itself and the reader for the stimulating connection amongst the two. It is seen throughout Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong, Hang’s coming of age represents her development as a woman, her changing process of thinking, and her ability to connect to the reader on a personal level.
Simply, Kim posits, that since these white men withhold themselves from lashing out in violence towards the black boys in the ring, they instead, watch as the young black males harm each other as a means of self pleasure. This can be equated to an individual masturbating to pornographic images or film. As the white townsmen watch the Battle Royal, porn, they begin to get aroused until they climax from viewing the last black boy standing in the ring.
For all Annawadians except Asha, corruption ingrained in society prevents the impoverished citizens of a Mumbai slum from being able to become successful in life. Despite working hard, saving money, and only wanting to better the life of their family, the Husains’s story is demonstrative of the fact that an unintentional entanglement in the “great web of corruption” “in which the most wretched tried to punish the slightly less wretched” could easily lead to near ruin (Boo 115). Over the course of her narrative, Boo shows that Annawadians recognize the issues of corruption present in their society, and the fact that they lack the power to change the system. For Annawadians, the courage and aspiration to become more successful in life meant taking a gamble, and Boo shows that their gamble could only be made in a system where the odds were forced against their
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man tells of one man's realizations of the world. This man, the invisible man, comes to realize through experience what the world is really like. He realizes that there is illusion and there is reality, and reality is seen through light. The Invisible Man says, "Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth" (7). Ellison uses light as a symbol for this truth, or reality of the world, along with contrasts between dark/light and black/white to help show the invisible man's evolving understanding of the concept that the people of the world need to be shown their true ways. The invisible man becomes aware of the world's truth through time and only then is he able to fully understand the world in which he lives.
Visions are truly a mystery to our world. Only certain people have the ability to have visions, it is often confused with dreams but visions are a whole different thing. It is full of wonders and unanswered questions and sometimes leaves a small trace of a magical presence. There are many mysteries to unravel and discoveries to analyze the meaning to. The adventure that the visions takes you on is yours, it has control of your mind and will take your mind into a wild roller coaster ride.
Owing to India’s diversity, these identities are determined by caste, ancestry, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation and geographic location, and play an important role in determining the social position of an individual (Anne, Callahan & Kang, 2011). Within this diversity, certain identities are privileged over others, due to social hierarchies and inequalities, whose roots are more than a thousand years old. These inequalities have marginalized groups and communities which is evident from their meagre participation in politics, access to health and education services and
From beginning to end, the novel, “The God of Small Things”, authored by Arundhati Roy, makes you very aware of a class system (caste) that separates people of India in many ways. This separation among each other is surprisingly so indoctrinated in everyone that many who are even disadvantaged by this way of thinking uphold its traditions, perhaps for fear of losing even more than they already have, or simply because they do not know any other way. What’s worse, people seen as the lowest of the low in a caste system are literally called “untouchable”, as described in Roy’s novel, allowing, according to Human Rights Watch:
...es for more than 40 millions people in the poorest areas in India. They reflect the company’s value and raise the voice of the company in India.
What "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground” means to me:
Estha’s search for justice, or more accurately, his inability to search for justice, is representative of much larger systemic issues that plague India. The caste system, although now illegal, still remains very influential in many aspects of Indian society, including the justice system, which ultimately lead to the death of Velutha, an Untouchable, by denying him an opportunity to defend himself, along with the end of Estha’s childhood innocence as he confronts the harsh reality of the adult world, and subsequently attempts to escape it. Furthermore, Estha’s inability to let go of his past following the trauma of his childhood as he is forced to falsely incriminate Velutha to protect his own family is representative of the larger struggle of society to give up past traditions including the caste system to embrace a more moral society that allows people to fight for justice. Without solving these larger issues, it is impossible for individual people to effectively and morally carry out their lives and their own search for