Letter to BS: Modi's joke on dyslexia would offend the differently-abled

The typical difference between winning and losing is 15 per cent and typically 20 per cent of voters are PWD who will benefit from the election process being made barrier-free

Last week, Sachin Mampatta, a Business Standard journalist, contacted Disability Rights Alliance (DRA) to talk to a preferably Person with Disability (PWD) member on how the big hype in the press, over the recent elections being rendered disabled- friendly, measures up against the ground reality. The advocacy of the rights of PWD by DRA is apparently credible, going by the newspaper’s desire to seek their opinion; and I am understandably proud to be a member of DRA, in fact the one asked to talk to the journalist. After talking to me, Mampatta wrote a piece “Voting is an obstacle course