Most of us know about the Olympics. But the question is, how many of us know about the Paralympics ? After getting a single bronze in Olympics, we started celebrating. But many of us don’t even know that we got 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in Paralympics. No matter we watched the match or not, almost everyone of us have heard about PV Sindhu winning silver and Sakshi Malik winning bronze in Olympics. But again, who knows about Devendra Jhajharia’s gold in the javelin throw or Deepa Malik’s silver in the shot put or Mariyappan Thangavelu’s gold and Varun Singh Bhati’s bronze in men’s high jump ? We haven’t even heard the name of these players. Why is it so ? What’s the reason they got less media coverage? Wait, you will get the answer very soon.
Undoubtedly, Sindhu and Sakshi played marvellously and off course, they deserved appreciation, awards and accolades. Sindhu recieved 5 cr and land from Telangana govt, 3 cr from Andhra govt, 2 cr from Delhi govt, 50 lacs from MP govt, latest SUV model from M&M and what not. Even many business men and jewellers from her state presented her gifts. Similarly, Sakshi recieved 1 cr from Delhi and Haryana govt. Delhi govt even gave promotion to his father in delhi transport corporation. Not only the government or the people, many celebrities celebrated all day on Facebook and Twitter. Sachin presented them BMW, while Salman Khan gave 1.01 lacs to both of them. Even pizza hut gave free pizzas for their namesakes and why not they truly deserve all this and even more. But why the Paralympics winners not even got the equal admiration ? If not the windfall of cash rewards like Sindhu and Sakshi, why these players didn’t get the same respect ? Why govt didn’t gave this much rewards to these people ? Why we didn’t celebrate on their victory ? PV Sindhu and Sakshi did hardwork. Similarly they also did infact more coz they are disabled. Then why are we not feeling proud of them ? Why, why and many more whys? And the only answer is: THEY ARE DISABLES.
Why disability is regarded as curse ? Why can’t we see that even after being disabled they have gone so far and we are still sitting here ? Because they are not disable, but our mentality is. Disability is nothing, every people have some special powers and they proved it.
Disability is just a special ability. Come, lets respect it.
Article By: Ms. Charul Barola