Have felt like being in the shoes of a person blind since birth – especially to experience something new without any past impressions and totally ignorant of the concepts of shape, size and color. Fascinating.

Come to think of it, it was only yesterday that somebody was raving about this particular work by Sujatha and today I get to read the review here of the same work. By the way, this certain somebody – I have not yet “seen” personally – not in my 200 hours of wakeful existence (dreams are always fantasies) but here I am – hoping that that same somebody will someday be the ‘light of my life’. But as they say sometimes ‘Love is blind’, wot?

Seeing ain’t always believing!!!

It is of course true that when all our sense organs are functioning correctly and we come across someone who has the misfortune of not having one or more, we think to ourselves how is it that this person gets and processes sensory information. More so, if it is the eye since it is said that more than 80% of our sensory input comes thru the eyes.

Also when we think of someone we tend to think of their face and the one organ that is distinguished in the face is the eye. Eyes speak by themselves and if that organ itself is incapable of its function, then it indeed is unfortunate.

But let us not forget that people can have eyes and still be “blind” to a lot of things. That is a far more pitiable state than just the physical shortcoming.

Hats off to Latha for the description which is a teaser to the reader to get their hands at that story of Sujatha (considering that it appeared quite a while back). If it is available online, can someone post a link to it? Thanks.

latha/lazy , sujatha himself wrote up somewhere (shud be vikatan) the same question. and he wrote, ” i asked this to a blind man. therinju enna sir panna porom ! it doesnt make sense (!) to us.”

actually, “see” in the vision-enabled word is a two phase process. we think as we see. we interpret what the lens shows us. the blind could only not view the world. but he could sense it happening. he could interpret.

the blind have a completely different picture of you and me. actually, every blind person, has a unique pictuer of you and me.

just as it is hard for the blind people to find out how we see the world.. it is equally unimaginable for us to find out how they have thought of this world. what pictures come to their mind in every sense. May be its a wonderful experience to them..

i think the blind can see better than us. :)

And yes, In mahabaratha, the blind king had a wise eye. “Vithuran” was his name, and the most underplayed yet highly logical character in the story. ever heard if him !

It makes us wonder if the worst thing is not to lack “Paarvai” but not to have “Paarvai”.(vision).

I’m sorry if I offended you or hurt you, I didn’t mean it that way- it was just intended as a comic relief. If you haven’t noticed the very fact that I come to your blog is a sign that I like reading your stuff..

I will try to write differently from now on, sorry about it.