What does it take to work? Sometimes a husband’s consent! Work or jobs are not necessarily about competence and ability, but often about what is considered ‘normal’. And who and what is that anyway? Exploring Article 41 of the Indian Constitution, this episode of The Longest Constitution unpacks the assumptions made about the ‘able-bodied’, looks into the history of disability and the movement of the rights of the disabled, which began by the organized blind in the 1970s.

Reading material: Abidi, Javed, (2013), ‘Disability rights is off the rails’, Available at: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/disability-rights-is-off-the-rails/article4469686.ece

Chander, Jagdish, (2011), Movement of the Organized Blind in India: From Passive Recipients of Services to Active Advocates of Their Rights, PhD Thesis, Syracuse University.

Bhatnagar, Gaurav V. (2018), ‘Noted Disability Rights Activist Javed Abidi Dies of Heart Attack at 53’, Available at: https://thewire.in/rights/noted-disability-rights-activist-javed-abidi-dies-heart-attack-53
Legal cases: Javed Abidi vs. Union of India, 1998, https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1962463/

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