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Our Governments are slow, and don't know what they are doing. Do not depend them and it can only make your child a "Pensioner". Do you want your child depended and live all its life in sympathy or want to "make them earn and pay tax".
Ram Kamal
Editor & Publisher
For many mothers, learning that their new born faces severe physical or cognitive challenges feels like the sky has fallen. Society is often quick to place blame, leaving the mother with few allies to console her. It is devastatingly easy to slip into depression and accept a life of mere caregiving, believing that nothing more can be done.
However, a fierce and visionary breed of mothers is refusing to leave their children to the mercy of sympathy. By acting as unbreakable catalysts, they are rewriting the fate of their children. They remind us that having a child with different abilities is not a time to cry—it is a time to wake up, design your child's life, and make the impossible completely possible.
When a child is diagnosed with a disability, the immediate societal reflex is often segregation. When Dhvaj was diagnosed with a significant eye condition, school principals and others advised his mother, Alpa Dhyani, to send him away to a blind school and hostel.
Refusing to accept a segregated path, Alpa made a resolute decision that Dhvaj would attend a mainstream school to prove that differently abled children deserve equal opportunities. To support his education, Alpa meticulously prepared study notes for every subject and learned to record audio materials. Her relentless push for inclusion yielded remarkable results. Dhvaj eventually pursued a regular BCA degree at SEMCOM College, graduating third in his university with an 8.1 CGPA. Together with his sister, he even launched a YouTube channel, "ViTechie," to create educational videos for visually impaired students.
Alpa anchored her son's success with a powerful guiding philosophy: "You have to decide whether people take pride in you because of your ability, or whether anyone helps you out of sympathy because of your disability."
Early intervention combined with technological empowerment can completely dismantle educational barriers. Nausheen Galaria experienced a defining moment when doctors informed her that her six-week-old son, Amaan, had a severe, life-threatening eye condition. Today, Amaan lives with complete vision loss in one eye and severe low vision in the other, making him legally blind.
Instead of settling for traditional, often tedious methods of specialized education, Nausheen embraced the "New Age Assistive Technology Way". She bypassed the barriers of mainstream schooling by ensuring her son was entirely self-sufficient.
The journey of Sarah Moin and her parents, Julee Hamid and Moin Ahmad Idrisi, proves that profound physical limitations are no match for a family's resilience. Sarah lost her vision due to Glaucoma, suffering 98% optic nerve damage, and gradually lost her hearing almost completely.
Facing an educational system unprepared for a deaf and blind student, her family took matters into their own hands. They painstakingly converted all of her printed textbooks into e-text. Empowered by her parents' dedication, a Refreshable braille display, and a laptop, Sarah shattered every expectation placed upon her:
These mothers did not spend their time in the crib lamenting fate. They transformed their fear into a relentless drive to help their children excel. As we look at the triumphs of Dhvaj, Amaan, and Sarah, and almost all Chakshumathi stars, the message to society is clear: disability often just means doing things differently. When a mother decides not to cry, but to lead, she builds a bridge over the impossible.
Chakshumathi is proud to Celebrate the 14th anniversary of our program 'Mummy Birds and Early Birds' and salute all mothers for their dedication.
With the assistance of over 100 successful mummies, who stopped crying and took the reins of their child's future, we are launching “Mummy No Cry” an App in September as an “ONAM GIFT” for self-education of every mother of a child with difference, to join and enter into the supporting and cooperating eco system of a mothers collaborative network to ensure therapies on time, technology training and educational therapy lessons on time. Believe in you. You are the super mummy of a super baby, who can do wonders.