The World of Vineet: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

Sunday, February 24, 2019

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

Hey everyone! Wish you all A very Happy New Year!!
New Year brings with it new hopes, dreams, aspirations and a mind waiting to begin afresh, anew...
So with these feelings we have stepped into another year and we were very blessed to start it with the blessings of The Almighty.
This year I hope Vineet will put some of his time aside for his first year graduation studies.As for his musical journey, he has decided to continue his Octapad and Guitar classes, but not the Keyboard class. No amount of persuasion could change his mind, so we've left him with his decision.

This new year started on a very very HAPPY note for us! We got to meet my long time (read over 10 years!! ) online friend , Sita Kumar and her family, all the way from California , US. We connected via " Orkut " (THE Happening social networking site before Facebook!). Yes, we connected even before Facebook via the #spinabifida group therein.

Sita has a 16 yo daughter with Spina Bifida and boy, she is one sassy girl I know now 😂. It was a different thing to know Sita, her 'Super-hubby'Vinesh, her 19yo son Suraj and of course, Isha , in person. We met in Kolkata and though we only had one day , it was enough to connect and bond like family. With Sita, time spent was like old friends, but thats another story, and this blog is about Vineet..
Of course, time is never enough with friends... 😕

We had dinner together ,and cussed the inaccessible places together 😈.

I was quite ashamed of how inaccessible public places in Kolkata was even now in 2019 😖 I did what I always do - took pics and posted them all over the internet.(Wait for a blog on the 2 public places we went to in these 2 days and how Inaccessible they were!) Thats the least I can do to raise awareness...PLEASE PEOPLE, try and put yourself in the shoes of the disabled for one day and you will know how difficult we all have made their lives by #inaccessiblity . IT IS NOT THEIR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES THEIR LIVES DIFFICULT.
ITS THE INACCESSIBLE PATHWAYS

As I write this, Sita is on her way back home to the US and we are wishful of meeting again!! Amen to that!
It still seems like a dream to me now...

Sita and Vinesh, you guys are heroes without the capes and we were humbled by your visit...

So much to learn from you and the kids! Much love... 💖💞💗

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OPEN LETTERS TO HRITHIK ROSHAN

02.07.2004

Dear Hrithik,

I am sure you won’t forget this letter in a hurry. My son was watching your latest movie –“Lakshya” and as you were punished during your training session for not paying attention ,there were sounds of sobbing in the theatre. My husband and I turned towards our son sitting between us and realized that he was sobbing uncontrollably with tears running down his cheeks. When asked ,he replied –‘ My Hrithik is punished –so I’m crying.” It took quite some time for us to make him understand that you did not cry and bravely completed your punishment.

That’s my son ‘Valentine Vineit Victor ",aged four years for you .He`s been your admirer even since he could hear and understand songs and I mean songs from ‘Kaho Na Pyar Hai’.He used to say ‘I do-do’ for ‘I love you’ in the title song when he was about 1 year old . Then came ‘Koi Mil Gaya’ and that was the first movie he watched in a cinema hall. And he was so so excited . He watched the entire movie though he was very drowsy due to his habit of sleeping in the afternoons .

Now you may ask – whats so new about a small boy being your ardent admirer? Here’s your answer – Vineet has ‘Spina Bifida’ and is paralyzed from waist downwards . It’s a neurological disorder by birth and we are extremely thankful to God that he is a very intelligent boy . He is in Nursery -II and stood First in Nursery -I .He is very well- behaved and is very very interested in music and singing . And not to mention, he can copy all the dance steps that he sees on TV. – that is, as much as his upper self allows .

He has an identical jacket like yours in the song ‘Kyun Chalti Hai Pawan’;and every time he puts it on , he puts up both his hands in the air just like you and starts singing . He’s just crazy about everything you do and says he’ll look like you when he will grows up . We make him do things just in your name ! ( eating , studying etc. ) We even got his head shaved saying he’ll look like you !! HA HA HA! ( joking ).

We saw you on the National Geographic channel some time back with orphan children . We got a glimpse of your personal life . And here’s what is really in my mind as I write this letter to you –Can Vineet meet you in person sometime – may be during some holidays – as my husband is a teacher . Actually ,though we treat Vineet normally , deep down in our hearts ,we are so attached to him that we now see through his eyes , and hear through his ears and wish for whatever he wishes . And I can already imagine his expression if he gets to see you in personal – a very big , no, huge achievement in his life . It just means that we would like to spend a few precious moments in your company ;but we have absolutely no knowledge of how to get to you.I am sending this letter with all my hopes pinned on you and even though I don’t want this to look like a fan-mail, I have to congratulate you for your superb performance in ‘Koi mil gaya’.I could identify myself with your character’s mother- the mother of a child with special needs. Its really hard to protect your baby from a few uncompassionate people. Anyways ,that’s a completely different topic.

Vineet is on a wheelchair and after a few more months, it will be impossible to carry him around as we have been doing uptill now .My husband has already floated Vineet’s site on the web, which you are welcome to visit at –www.theworldofvineit.com and www.geocities.com/vineitsjourney

Our mail add.is- Mr.Ravi Victor, Vijaydeep ,P.O. Upper Chelidanga, Asansol-713304.

And e-mail id is rav_victor@yahoo.com

Please do give us some personal response from your side. We are eagerly waiting for your affirmative reply.

Mrs. J.Renu Victor

&

Mr. Ravi Victor

(P.S. we could not get your e-mail i.d.,so we are posting this letter-sorry for the delay)

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10.04.2006

Dear Hrithik,

The above is a copy of the letter I sent u in November 2005. I suppose the letter either got lost or maybe u were busy getting ready for your “little bundle of joy”. OUR HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW ARRIVAL!!!!

Actually, we sent u a courier in October but it was returned unsigned. How very foolish of us! Then we sent the letter by ordinary mail. It never came back nor did a reply. So as we write this letter we don’t know how we’ll send it ,but wish it will reach u-we are hoping in the good Lord. The latest is that Vineet has been promoted to Class 1,and he was very seriously ill in June last year. So his health has gone down a bit as u will c in his sites’ updates. Do please let us meet u some time this year later maybe in the winter hols.? Vineet will be very happy. Its in his mind that he’ll be seeing u sometime in his life.Please grant his wish,sir.we’ll bless u for this everafter. In our last letter we sent u Vineet’s snap, but we r scared this time . Do visit Vineet’s site. I am not writing a long letter this time. I’ll write to u after getting your much awaited reply.

Thankyou in advance,

Mrs. J.Renu Victor &

Mr.Ravi Victor

24th May 2010

Dear Hrithik,

I am the mother of a 10 year old boy who has ‘Spina bifida’. I am writing this letter today,i.e. 24th May 2010 in the hope that maybe we can get to see you and meet you here I Kolkata. I don’t know whether this will happen or not as I write this letter now at 5.30 a.m. But what I would like to tell you, is that my son ‘VINEET’ is your ardent fan ever since he was a year old and ‘Kaho na pyaar hai’ was just released.

I had sent you some letters some years back, the copies of which I am attaching. PLEASE do read them when you have time. I understand that’s its difficult to listen to just a fan, but my heart says you will surely grant my request( on behalf of my son).

Vineet now has a blog which I hope you will have time to visit- theworldofvineetvictor.blogspot.com

Thankyou so much,

Mrs. Jacqueline Renu Victor

jrenuvictor@gmail.com

(I don't swear, but u can rest assured that if you ever contact me, it shall be kept private, I promise..)