In this world, there are many winners who defeated physical disabilities. Be it Hugh Herr enjoying nothing more than scaling a cliff. Or soldier Scott Schroeder wearing two prosthetic legs and a false arm that haven’t stopped him from enjoying a spot of scuba diving. The realization that myriad others exist should substantiate our position as to how lucky we are; and shouldn’t blame our bad luck for not doing that well financially. It’s ungratefully forgotten how lucky we are in having everything that nature has given us.
The Jaipur-based Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an organization with a difference. It’s the world’s largest organization for helping the handicapped, and one Mahaveer Seva Kendra (of Kolkata) is working under that umbrella. BMVSS introduced the self-lubricating Stanford-Jaipur Knee with a revolutionary new technology, developed by Stanford University working with Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti that was recognized by the Time magazine as one of the world’s 50 best inventions for the year 2009. Built on a sensitive, humane and “patient-first” social philosophy and value system, the foremost concern of BMVSS is that the dignity and self-respect of patients that must be maintained or enhanced at all costs. The documentation is an intense observation of life of people the primary parts of whose body for moving have been replaced by artificial ones. On one hand it is a story of despair, hope, sadness all together, on the other: an opportunity to look forward to a new, brave beginning…
Abhijit Chakraborty
