Friday, July 31, 2009

Why No House for Emraan?

Emraan Hashmi rejected a house in Mumbai. It was told that as he
is a muslim he is not welcome in housing society.It brings a shocking revelation . This has been the case in many places in India, My brother has been
searching a flat in Salt lake calcutta and he is being denied it everywhere he goes.

"Being a celebrity if I'm facing problems in buying a house here,
I wonder what kind of problems others would have been facing.
All the time we are talking about secularism but with such incidents what secularism are people talking about?" asked Emraan.
"Even 62 years after independence, the virus of communalism is alive in an area like Pali Hill, which is known as India's Beverly Hills. It's a serious problem and is the country ready to accept that communal ism is still surviving?" Emraan said.

It may be a personal fight by Emraan to get a house, but it brings a dirty truth out. What there is so much discrimination against Muslims?

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Sunday, July 5, 2009

Helping the blind

After a long time I had gone for charitable work. This service is done through my company,HP .It is associated with Sahana Charitable trust for disabled. In this we have to go and read a textbook and the blind person will type it into a special type writer Braille. Each Braille character or cell is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each. A dot may be raised at any of the six positions to form sixty-four (26) permutations, including the arrangement in which no dots are raised. For reference purposes, a particular permutation may be described by naming the positions where dots are raised, the positions being universally numbered 1 to 3, from top to bottom, on the left, and 4 to 6, from top to bottom, on the right. For example, dots 1-3-4 would describe a cell with three dots raised, at the top and bottom in the left column and on top of the right column, i.e., the letter m


The special books that are printed are distributed all over Karnataka. I was reading to a blind person called V.K he is blind and has to support a family of 4. He travels for 2 hrs daily. What a life! Sahana Charitable trust for disabled have employed many blind people to print books to teach the blind through out Karnataka.

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