Taare Zameen Par

I now turn my attention from pleasant thoughts and fond memories to the more serious and unfair faces of life.

Let me begin by first applauding the makers of the movie and all those involved with it for dealing with the subject with the right sensitivity and giving a profound insight into it. I hope this movie sends a reminder to all our movie makers to atleast once a while, make movies that actually reach out and touch our hearts.

But this post is not just about the movie. I would like to dwelve into my angle of the actual issue - dyslexia.

The most pathetic aspect of this problem is that in most cases, nobody is even aware of its existance. Since dyslexia affects only the fine skills, invariably, the inability of the child to comprehend certain things is mistook for sheer impertinence and indifference and by the time people realise that there is a problem, if they do that is, things may have gone just a little out of hand.

Leonardo Da Vinci and Thomas Alva Edison may have overcome this difficulty. But had they been subjected to today's educational system, it would have been a different story altogether!

I hate to see such children being turned out of schools under the pretext of incompatability and poor performance. God created every one equal and every child has a right to education which nobody has the right to deny. Whom did they wrong anyway to be shunned at? They are the ones who have been wronged for no fault of theirs.

That makes me wonder.....Have we reached a point where we want to raise only winners and achievers and not actually children? I know its a competetive world out there but are all those reasons, reasons enough to deprive children of their innocent and care-free childhood, the most precious phase of their lives?

What do these children actually need from the ones around them? Sympathy? Nope, thats the last thing they need and expect. Its the magical word Patience. Some one who can patiently see the world through their eyes and gradually make them see the right way. Some one who can instill in them self-confidence and hope - the two vital ingredients of life.

The children who do win over the hurdle called dyslexia and the ones who show them the ways to do so are the real and true stars!