For example, people with the above mentioned disabilities, with a considerable difference in orientation, share an emotional investment against a foundationalist view that there is a wide chasm between the idea of ability and disability. Actually, the differences between them are not all that overarching. On that count, and a seemingly intrinsic characteristic, all the three disabilities appear to widely differ from each other. To counteract discriminatory practices, people with sensory and cognitive disabilities, such as deafness, blindness and learning disability, demand diverse modes of public investment in a supportive environment. News on various policies and development issues on diaspora are featured here. The issue also has a book review by Abhay Chawla on “Digital Diasporas: Identity and Trans-national Engagement”. The issue contains an inter-view with Savitri Sawhney, writer of the book “I shall Never Ask for Par-don: A Memoir of Pandurang Khankhoje” published by Penguine India in 2008” based on the Gadar movement in the diaspora. She narrates how the diasporic imaginary is torn between the dual and often conflicting ideologies of the homeland and the host land. The issue has an article on “Diasporic Consciousness in the works of Jhumpa Lahiri and Bharati Mukherjee” written by Sai Diwan. The insights from these certainly help us to revisit the diasporic theories. He mentioned that Mehta’s continents of exile can help us explore diasporic consciousness with a keen sensitivity for the sensory. Hemachandran Karah, Faculty at The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies brought out many new issues which are not conventionally thought of. GRFDT monthly seminar on “Ved Mehta’s Continent of Blind Culture: Challenges in read-ing the narrative domain using conventional frameworks in diasporic the-ory”, a talk by Dr. How do we go ahead when the boarders are created by the lack of integration among researchers themselves? The closure of border can be noticed between the idea of sightedness and bliness in the research environment How do blind people relate to a diasporic existence? Is the experience any different from those of the sighted? Perhaps, our imagination of diasporic existence is primarily informed by the sighted majority. To address them we too need borderless minds. As the society is becoming more complex, there is need for better synergy among inquiring minds. This exclusion seriously affects the investigation and experiment leading to skewed knowledge generation. There is serious problem of exclusion in terms of integrating various knowledge domains arising out of these and influencing the inquiring frames. And problems may cut right across the borders of any subject matter or discipline - Karl Popper In the age of knowledge revolution, we face challenges of interdisciplinary research arising out of social, cultural, and conceptual barriers. Editor's Message We are not students of some subject matter, but students of problems.
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