Top of Form 1 DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 18, 2012 - India's laws permit discrimination against the deaf! India is a big nation where newspapers always describe the deaf as deaf-and-dumb or deaf-mute. A research team with the National Disability Network and the Disabled Rights Group looked at all of India's laws. They found 150 different laws that discriminate against deaf. Examples are - deaf not allowed to marry, deaf not allowed to inherit, not allowed to write wills, not allowed to drive, etc. Many of these laws are old but were never changed. Will India's legislators change these laws?