Deaf in Delhi A Memoir

Name: Deaf in Delhi A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781563682841

ISBN-10: 1563682842

ISBN-13: 9781563682841

Edition: 2006

Authors: Madan Vasishta

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In 1952, after two weeks of typhoid fever and the mumps, 11-year-old Madan Vasishta awoke one night to discover that he could no longer hear. He was horrified because in India, the word for "deaf" in all three main languages, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi, denoted someone who was not really human. But he was young, brash, and irrepressible, and his autobiography "Deaf in Delhi: A Memoir" reveals how his boundless optimism enabled him to persist and prevail. Vasishta's story reflects the India of his youth, an emerging nation where most people struggled with numbing poverty and depended upon close family ties, tradition, and faith to see them through. His family's search for a cure took him to a…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English