2 days ago I attended a basketball game in Boston College. This is an extremely different game from what you and I have ever seen. This tournament is called "Unified" Basketball tournament. Like the name suggests, much more than the actual game, this game promotes unity.The teams had children who had various special abilities, ranging from Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy to Down Syndrome and Autism. Our son has Cerebral Palsy and we had never imagined in our life that we w

Parenting is a difficult journey in itself and special needs parenting is definitely a bigger challenge. We decided to become parents just like any other couple and had thought of learning on the job with trials and errors. This is what every parent does. But we were in for a surprise. It's like buying a ticket to Frankfurt in Germany, but you tell me to get down at Paris in France! It's a much more beautiful city, but just that It's not where I had decided to go. I wasn't pr

I hate labels! Everything or everybody now has a label. For example, someone diagnosed of autism is "someone with autism" and not "autistic". The other day, during a casual conversation, someone said "from the time women started entering Sabarimala, Kerala is suffering. First the floods, and now the Corona virus." I immediately question, "Did the whole world get Corona because of this? So many deaths of innocent people who haven't even heard of Sabarimala!" For this I'm calle