ഡിഗ്രി സെക്കൻഡ് ഇയർ പഠിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുമ്പോഴായിരുന്നു എന്റെ വിവാഹം. പഠിക്കുന്നതിനെക്കാൾ മിടുക്കായിരുന്ന ഡാൻസ് കളിക്കാനും കോളജിലെ മറ്റു മേഖലകളിൽ തിളങ്ങി നിൽക്കാനും. അങ്ങനെ തിളങ്ങി നിൽക്കുമ്പോഴായിരുന്നു വിവാഹം കഴിഞ്ഞതും ഇരുപതാം വയസ്സിൽ ആദ്യത്തെ കുഞ്ഞിന് ജന്മം നൽകിയതും. ആദ്യകുഞ്ഞ് ജനിച്ചാൽ അമ്മമാർക്ക് ഉണ്ടാകുന്ന സന്തോഷങ്ങളും പ്രതീക്ഷകളും അറിയാമല്ലോ? മറ്റെല്ലാം മറന്ന് നമ്മൾ ആ സ്വർഗലോകത്തായിരിക്കും. മോനെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള പ്രതീക്ഷകളും സ്വപ്നങ്ങളും അധികകാലം നീണ്ടുപോയില്ല. എല്ലാം തകർന്നുപോയ ഒരു ദിവസം വന്നെത്തി. ആറാം മാസത്തിൽ ഒരു പനി വന്നതിനെ തുടർന്ന് ഷാനുവിനെ തിരൂരിലെ ഷംസുദീൻ ഡോക്ടറെ കാണിച്ചു. ഡോക്ടറാണു പറഞ്ഞത് ഷാനു ബൗദ്ധിക ഭിന്നശേഷിയുള്ള കുട്ടിയാണെന്ന്. മനസ്സു തകർന്നു പോയെങ്കിലും പ്രതീക്ഷ കൈവിടാതെ ഞാൻ ചോദിച്ചു: &ldquo;മരുന്ന് കഴിച്ചാൽ മാറില്ലേ ഡോക്ടർ?'' ബൗദ്ധിക ഭിന്നശേഷിയെക്കുറിച്ച് കാര്യമായി ഒന്നും അറിയാത്ത എന്റെ നിഷ്കളങ്കമായ ചോദ്യം കേട്ട്, ഡോക്ടർ പറഞ്ഞു, &ldquo;സാവധാനം ചില മാറ്റങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കിയെടുക്കാം.'' കാലക്രമേണ ഞാൻ മനസ്സിലാക്കി ഇതൊരു രോഗമല്ല, അവസ്ഥയാണ്. ഈ അവസ്ഥയിലൂടെ കടന്നുപോകുന്നവർ ഒരുപാടുണ്ട് നമുക്കു ചുറ്റും. ആദ്യമായി ജനിച്ച കുഞ്ഞ് സമപ്രായക്കാരെപ്പോലെ ഒന്നും ചെയ്യാതെ വരുമ്പോൾ മനസ്സിൽ ആശങ്കയായിരുന്നു ആദ്യം. മോന് നടക്കാനും പറ്റുമായിരുന്നില്ല. എന്റെ ഭർത്താവ് നജ്മുദീന് ദുബായിലാണു ജോലി. ഇങ്ങനെയൊരു മോൻ ഉണ്ടായതു കാരണം ഭർത്താവിനൊപ്പം വിദേശത്തു ജീവിക്കണം എന്ന എന്റെ വലിയ ആഗ്രഹം പോലും ഇല്ലാതായല്ലോ എന്നുവരെ ആ കാലത്ത് ഞാൻ ചിന്തിച്ചു കൂട്ടി. എനിക്കു മാത്രം എന്താ ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു കുഞ്ഞ് എന്ന് നിരന്തരം തന്നോടു തന്നെ ചോദിച്ചു. വിഷാദത്തിൽ ആഴ്ന്നുപോയ ദിവസങ്ങൾ. ആ അവസ്ഥയിൽ നിന്ന് എന്നെ മോചിപ്പിച്ചതും ധൈര്യം തന്ന് കൂടെ നിർത്തിയതും എന്റെ ഉമ്മയാണ്. മനസ്സ് ഒന്നു ശാന്തമായപ്പോൾ ഞാൻ ഷാനുവിനെയും കൊണ്ട് തെറപ്പികൾക്കു പോയിത്തുടങ്ങി.
&ldquo;മതി അവൻ ശരിയാകില്ല, കുറെയായല്ലോ ഈ തെറപ്പി തുടങ്ങിട്ട് എന്നൊക്കെ പറഞ്ഞു പിന്തിരിപ്പിക്കാൻ ഒരുപാട് പേരുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. അതൊന്നും വകവയ്ക്കാതെ ഫിസിയോ, സ്പീച്, ഒക്യുപേഷണൽ തെറപ്പികളൊക്കെ ഞാൻ കൃത്യമായി കൊടുത്തു. അതിന്റെ ഫലമായി അവൻ നടക്കാനും അവ്യക്തമായി സംസാരിക്കാനും തുടങ്ങി. അവനെയും കൊണ്ട് പുറത്തു പരിപാടികളിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുമ്പോൾ ആദ്യം നിരാശ തോന്നിയിരുന്നു. ഹൈപ്പർ ആക്ടീവായ അവൻ ചെയ്യുന്ന വികൃതികൾ ആളുകൾക്കിടയിൽ സംസാരമാകും. ചിലർ അസഹിഷ്ണുത കാണിക്കും. ചിലർ വെറുപ്പു പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കും. അതൊന്നും വക വയ്ക്കാതെ ഞാൻ പോകുന്നിടത്തെല്ലാം അവനെയും കൊണ്ടുപോകാൻ തുടങ്ങി. ക്രമേണ അവനിലും മാറ്റങ്ങൾ വന്നു, സമൂഹവും മാറിത്തുടങ്ങി. നമ്മളെന്തിനവരെ എല്ലായിടങ്ങളിൽനിന്നും മാറ്റി നിർത്തണം. ഈ ലോകം അവരുടേതും കൂടിയാണ്.
ആദ്യം അവരെ അംഗീകരിക്കേണ്ടത് നമ്മൾ അമ്മമാരാണ്. നമ്മളവരെ അംഗീകരിച്ചാൽ നാളെ ലോകമവരെ അംഗീകരിക്കും, തീർച്ച. ഏറ്റവും നല്ല ടീച്ചറും തെറപ്പിസ്റ്റുമാകാൻ നമുക്കല്ലേ കഴിയൂ..&nbsp;പതുക്കെ ഞാൻ ഷാനുവിനെയും കൊണ്ടു ബസിലൊക്കെ കയറിത്തുടങ്ങി. ബസ് യാത്രയിൽ നാട്ടിലുള്ള സ്റ്റോപ്പുകളുടെ പേരുകളൊക്കെ അവൻ വിളിച്ചുപറയും.
ആളുകൾ അടക്കം പറയുമ്പോൾ ഞാനതൊക്കെ ആസ്വദിക്കും. കണ്ടും കേട്ടും അവൻ പഠിച്ചെടുത്ത കാര്യങ്ങൾ വിളിച്ചു പറയുമ്പോൾ അതിൽ എനിക്കു സന്തോഷിക്കാനല്ലേ കഴിയൂ. ഇന്നെന്റെ ഹീറോ ആണ് ഷാനു, എന്റെ ഐഡന്റിറ്റി. അവനിലൂടെയാണ് ഞാൻ വ്യത്യസ്തമായ ഒരു ലോകം കണ്ടത്. എന്നെ ജീവിതം പഠിപ്പിച്ചു തന്ന എന്റെ പതിനേഴുകാരൻ. അവനെക്കുറിച്ച് ഞാൻ നിരന്തരം സമൂഹമാധ്യമങ്ങളിൽ എഴുതി. അതു വായിച്ച് പല ഭാഗങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നായി ഒരുപാട് അമ്മമാർ എന്റെയും അവന്റെയും സുഹൃത്തുക്കളായി.
ഭിന്നശേഷിക്കാരുടെ രക്ഷിതാക്കൾക്കുള്ള ഒരു സന്നദ്ധ സംഘടനയുടെ മലപ്പുറം ജില്ലാ ജോയിന്റ് സെക്രട്ടറിയാണു ഞാൻ ഇന്ന്.&nbsp;കൂടാതെ, സ്പെഷൽ സ്കൂൾ പരിശീലനം കഴിഞ്ഞ് തിരൂരിലെ ഒരു ബഡ്സ് സ്കൂളിൽ അധ്യാപികയായി ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നുമുണ്ട്.&nbsp;ഷാനു തിരൂർ എഡബ്ല്യുഎച്ച് സ്പെഷൽ സ്കൂൾ വിദ്യാർഥിയാണ്.
ഷാനുവിന് ഒരു അനിയത്തി കൂടിയുണ്ട്. അഞ്ചാം ക്ലാസ് വിദ്യാർഥിനിയായ നേഹൽ. വീട്ടുകാര്യങ്ങൾ നോക്കി ഒതുങ്ങി ജീവിക്കേണ്ടിരുന്ന ഞാനിന്ന് നേടിയെടുത്തതെല്ലാം ഭിന്നശേഷിക്കാരനായ എന്റെ ഷാനുവിനാൽ ലഭിച്ചതാണ്. നെഞ്ചത്തു കൈ വച്ച് ആത്മ വിശ്വാസത്തോടെ അഭിമാനത്തോടെ വിളിച്ചു പറയുന്നു, &ldquo;ഞാൻ ഷാനുവിന്റെ ഉമ്മയാണ്.

ഉമ്മയുടെ ഉയിരായ ഷാനു

100,176,443,149,1093,1536

English

Spanish(español)

Bengali(বাঙালি)

Gujarati(ગુજરાતી)

Hindi(हिन्दी)

Malayalam(മലയാളം)

Tamil(தமிழ்)

Telugu(తెలుగు)

Manorama Weekly

കൊതിയൂറും വിഭവങ്ങൾ

ആട് വസന്തയും പ്രതിരോധവും

കൃഷിയും കറിയും

ബിഗ്സ്ക്രീനിലെ അമർജ്യോതി

കരുതൽ

ജാഫർകുട്ടി എന്ന വിളക്കുമരം

നായകളിലെ മന്തുരോഗം

എല്ലാം കാണുന്ന ക്യാമറ

1. You agree that the use of Magzter.com, the application and its services, are at solely at your own risk. Neither Magzter.com nor its associates nor employees nor third party content providers guarantee that the service will be completely uninterrupted or error-free or foolproof against miscreant activities. Nor do they warranty that you will get the exact results as expected or promised by the website or product.

11. THE SERVICE AND ALL PUBLICATIONS ARE PROVIDED ON AN 'AS IS' AND 'AS AVAILABLE' BASIS. MAGZTER, ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS AND AGENTS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER MAGZTER NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS OR AGENTS, MAKES ANY WARRANTY THAT (I) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (II) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (III) THE INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE OR THAT MAY BE CONTAINED IN THE PUBLICATIONS WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, OR (IV) THE QUALITY OF ANY PUBLICATIONS OR THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING AND MAINTAINING RELIABLE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY AND YOUR DEVICE. MAGZTER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INABILITY TO DOWNLOAD CONTENT. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR MOBILE DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM MAGZTER OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY.

2. You will maintain and promptly update that information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account, including the selection and use of all content and services.

2.You will maintain and promptly update that information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account, including the selection and use of all content and services.

3. In no event will Magzter.com or any person or entity or third party involved in the creation, production and distribution of the content on the website and the application be liable in contract or legally for any damages, including and not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, special, and consequential incurred to you while or on using Magzter.com. By registering on the website or downloading the application, you agree that the provisions mentioned in this section shall apply to all use of and content on the website and the application.

3. Without prior written or authorised permission from Magzter, you should not modify, copy, distribute or sell any content obtained from Magzter as everything published here is the proprietary property of Magzter or its licensors. As such unauthorised use may also violate applicable laws including copyright and trademark laws, Magzter strictly prohibits these and will terminate your access and account if any such illegal activity is proved or detected. You should also stand liable for the damages caused by these unauthorised activities. Except as permitted by the Publication's lawful owner, you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading Publications accessed through the Service. Except as explicitly required under copyright law or permitted by the features of the Service you may not modify, reverse engineer, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works of, or in any way commercially exploit or provide to a third party the content of the App, the Publications, or any portion of them without the express permission of Magzter and the owner of such content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Magzter or Magzter's licensors.

5. You specifically acknowledge that Magzter.com is not liable for any kind of defamatory or offensive or illegal conduct of other users or third parties or their content and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you.

8. Magzter reserves all rights to monitor the content published and inputted by you for the purpose of determining whether you are compliant with these terms and conditions and other operating rules determined by Magzter. Magzter has the right to take decisions about the content and delete them at its own will.

9. Magzter is a distributor and NOT a publisher of the Publications and so Magzter has no editorial control over the content, including opinions, advice, statements, services, offers etc., that is represented in the magazines. So Magzter will not take responsibility for the accuracy or the reliability for any information or facts provided therein or that is made available through the service, by anyone other than authorised Magzter employees who are acting on their official capacities. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered by the Service, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of Magzter. Magzter will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained through the Service or from the Publications. The Service may contain links to other Internet sites and third-party resources and Magzter does not assume any responsibility or liability for communications or materials available at such linked sites. These links are provided for your convenience only. You are solely responsible for understanding any terms and conditions that may apply when you visit or place an order through a third-party site.

Choose your favorite titles from 40+ exciting categories

Details of the objectionable content, including its link on our platform

Download your favorite titles and read them offline, anytime and anywhere

Gift your loved ones with a Magzter Gift Card instantly and give them the freedom to read their favorite magazines and newspapers from thousands of best-selling titles.

Gift your loved ones with a Magzter Gift Card instantly and give them the freedom to read their favorite magazines from thousands of best-selling titles.

Gift your loved ones with a Magzter Gift Card instantly and give them the freedom to read their favorite magazines from {{magCount}} best-selling international titles.

Girish Ramdas is the Co-founder and CEO of Magzter, a New York based startup that has been making waves in the global digital publishing business. Magzter has crossed 80 million users since its inception in 2011 from more than 150+ countries with 1000s of magazines, newspapers and books from more than 4,500 publishers worldwide. He has more than 25 years of experience in cross-platform publishing, including print, mobile, and Web development. During this period, he has co-founded and run three successful start-up businesses. He has enabled magazine companies to go digital and helps them monetize their content across the digital world. Girish's deep industry experience in online, mobile and publishing ecosystems has made him an expert in acquisition, marketing and monetizing digital content across platforms globally.

In the event that you encounter any objectionable content on our platform, we have put in place a grievance redressal policy to address your concerns.

Magzter Inc. (“Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared. Please read the following privacy policy (the “Policy”) to learn more about our privacy practices. By visiting any of the websites operated by the Company, and any sub-domains thereof, or using any of our mobile applications and other methods of content distribution (collectively, the “Service”), you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways.

Magzter Inc. is the World's largest and fastest growing self-service, cross-platform digital newsstand with over 80 million users since its inception in 2011 and thousands of magazines and newspapers across 40+ categories and 60+ languages. Headquartered in New York, Magzter has its local presence in Amsterdam, London, Mexico City, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Singapore, and will soon be expanding to other countries. Founded by global entrepreneurs, Girish Ramdas and Vijay Radhakrishnan in June 2011, Magzter enables magazine and newspaper publishers around the world to create and deliver digital editions of their titles to global consumers.

Magzter is committed to providing a safe and secure platform for our users. Please note that Magzter is merely a platform for publishers to distribute their content. We do not control or endorse the content published on our platform. We cannot be held responsible for the actions of our publishers or their content.

Magzter is not responsible for compensating any party that has suffered damages or incurred costs due to any content, or part of the content, that violates their rights. Magzter is not liable to face any legal action in civil court for any violation of rights caused by any content, or part of the content, that infringes the rights of a third party.

Magzter offers the world’s largest {{allyoucanread}} subscription service called {{gold}} which gives digital readers unlimited access to 9,000+ magazines and newspapers for a monthly subscription price. Magzter also has the largest number of stories in the world with its game-changing ezRead 2.0 feature for its apps, which enables smartphone and small-screen mobile users to enjoy magazine content the way it was meant to be enjoyed, with article text that is easy to read and is accompanied by stunning videos and high resolution photography.

Magzter offers the world’s largest “All-You-Can-Read” subscription service called Magzter GOLD which gives digital readers unlimited access to 9,000+ magazines and newspapers for a monthly subscription price. Magzter also has the largest number of stories in the world with its game-changing ezRead 2.0 feature for its apps, which enables smartphone and small-screen mobile users to enjoy magazine content the way it was meant to be enjoyed, with article text that is easy to read and is accompanied by stunning videos and high resolution photography.

Name

Note: This will only share the cover and the publication information, but not the content.

Please fill out this form if you need any help regarding publishing your content on Magzter

Prior to Magzter, he was the President of Dot Com Infoway (DCI) and Galatta Media. His duties included strategic marketing, partnership development, and monetizing content globally. DCI grew from a small team of 3 in 2000 to 300 by 2011 and was dealing with web, software and app development for clients globally.

Since we launched, Magzter has been committed to partnering with global organizations to provide the greatest possible newsstand technology & service to our customers. Whether you are looking to offer magazine subscriptions to your customer database or just want to learn more, Magzter is committed to helping your business grow. To find out more, please fill out the questionnaire below:

The DMCA allows us to restore the removed content if the party filing the original DMCA Notice does not file a court action against you within ten business days of receiving the copy of your Counter Notice.

This Policy covers Company’s treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) and other information about you and your computer or device that Company gathers when you are accessing the Service. We may collect Personal Information from you, as explained in more detail below, and we use this Personal Information internally in connection with our Services, including to personalize, provide, and improve our products, services, content, and advertising, and to allow you to set up a user account and profile, to contact you, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to analyze how you use the Services. In certain cases, we may also share some Personal Information with third parties, but only as described in point 4.

This title is included with your Magzter GOLD subscription

To analyze the quality of content and provide appropriate feedback to publishers

We have designated a Grievance Officer to address any complaints related to objectionable content.

We request that any complaint related to objectionable content be sent to the Grievance Officer through email to the above-mentioned email address. We also request that you provide the following details when making a complaint:

and the App that provides you the capability to order, subscribe to and receive the delivery of various magazines, books, news and magazine and publication related content (collectively known as 'Publications') and to have these digital versions of the Publications delivered to you

c. We also collect information associated with your use of the application in order to make personalized recommendations. If you provide your third-party account credentials to us, you understand some content and/or information in those accounts (“Third Party Account Information”) may be transmitted into your account with us if you authorize such transmissions, and that Third Party Account Information transmitted to the Service is covered by this Policy.

f. The Personal Information we collect allows us to respond to your requests, improve our products and services, customize the advertising and content you see, and communicate with you about new products.

is the World's largest and fastest growing self-service, cross-platform digital newsstand with over 87 million users since its inception in 2011 and thousands of magazines and newspapers across 40+ categories and 60+ languages. Headquartered in New York, Magzter has its local presence in Amsterdam, London, Mexico City, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Singapore, and will soon be expanding to other countries. Founded by global entrepreneurs, Girish Ramdas and Vijay Radhakrishnan in June 2011, Magzter enables magazine and newspaper publishers around the world to create and deliver digital editions of their titles to global consumers.

n. We will also use usage information in order to ensure users adhere to our Terms of Use. For example, a user’s usage information will help us confirm that a user only downloads a magazine or other content a permitted number of times or to a permitted number of devices.

which gives digital readers unlimited access to 9,000+ magazines and newspapers for a monthly subscription price. Magzter also has the largest number of stories in the world with its game-changing ezRead 2.0 feature for its apps, which enables smartphone and small-screen mobile users to enjoy magazine content the way it was meant to be enjoyed, with article text that is easy to read and is accompanied by stunning videos and high resolution photography.

{{magzter}} is the World's largest and fastest growing self-service, cross-platform digital newsstand with over 87 million users since its inception in 2011 and thousands of magazines and newspapers across 40+ categories and 60+ languages. Headquartered in New York, Magzter has its local presence in Amsterdam, London, Mexico City, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Singapore, and will soon be expanding to other countries. Founded by global entrepreneurs, Girish Ramdas and Vijay Radhakrishnan in June 2011, Magzter enables magazine and newspaper publishers around the world to create and deliver digital editions of their titles to global consumers.