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Vadodara, September 27: THERE was no clapping, only a murmur and a wave of hands. But the applause could be seen in the shine of their eyes and the exuberance of their body language at the C C Mehta Auditorium. The city’s 400-odd hearing impaired marked World Deaf Day, and their first in Vadodara, with a show scripted by the Mook Badhir Foundation.
Complete with welcome and valedictory speeches, it was an in-house show of the otherwise neglected section of society. ‘‘We want to be heard. That’s the message. We are strong people and we can achieve many things. We did not know that there is World Deaf Day too. So we grabbed this opportunity with both hands,’’ said the organisers in the inaugural speech.
The centre of attraction was chief guest Zameer Dhale, a deaf and blind teacher from Mumbai-based Helen Keller Institute, as well as a play scripted by the deaf people themselves on the difficulties they face.
Laced with humour, the message behind the play was loud and clear. It’s not only the normal education system in India that has holes, the country’s hearing impaired also regret a lack of imagination in the Indian sign language.
Scripted by all participants, and directed by Rajesh Ketkar, the play had all elements of frustration woven in through humour and histrionics. At the centre of their grouse was a dictionary on American Sign Language that answers all possible word-related queries of the inquisitive. It has illustrations for all words with pictures.
The play showed how a childhood friend of an Indian hearing impaired person comes back smart and educated from the United States, just because of the innovative dictionary, even as his country brethren are deprived of the same.
‘‘We do not have books like that in India. Someone has to take up our cause. Otherwise all our ambitions will die,’’ said Ketkar after the play.
Vadodara, September 27: THERE was no clapping, only a murmur and a wave of hands. But the applause could be seen in the shine of their eyes and the exuberance of their body language at the C C Mehta Auditorium. The city’s 400-odd hearing impaired marked World Deaf Day, and their first in Vadodara, with a show scripted by the Mook Badhir Foundation.
Complete with welcome and valedictory speeches, it was an in-house show of the otherwise neglected section of society. ‘‘We want to be heard. That’s the message. We are strong people and we can achieve many things. We did not know that there is World Deaf Day too. So we grabbed this opportunity with both hands,’’ said the organisers in the inaugural speech.
The centre of attraction was chief guest Zameer Dhale, a deaf and blind teacher from Mumbai-based Helen Keller Institute, as well as a play scripted by the deaf people themselves on the difficulties they face.
Laced with humour, the message behind the play was loud and clear. It’s not only the normal education system in India that has holes, the country’s hearing impaired also regret a lack of imagination in the Indian sign language.
Scripted by all participants, and directed by Rajesh Ketkar, the play had all elements of frustration woven in through humour and histrionics. At the centre of their grouse was a dictionary on American Sign Language that answers all possible word-related queries of the inquisitive. It has illustrations for all words with pictures.
The play showed how a childhood friend of an Indian hearing impaired person comes back smart and educated from the United States, just because of the innovative dictionary, even as his country brethren are deprived of the same.
‘‘We do not have books like that in India. Someone has to take up our cause. Otherwise all our ambitions will die,’’ said Ketkar after the play.