Singer In Need
His modest background and income apart, Mudacer Hassan Dar created a band that sings to raise donations for the people who are in dire...
Dog Feeder
At a time when Srinagar is India’s dog-bite capital, a former bus driver collects throw-away from butchers and chicken dressers and feeds many packs...
A Model Family
Umar Khurshid reports a family in which a blind man runs a provision store to feed his ailing, aged mother and blind sister
Mukhti Begum, 70,...
Silently Successful
As the parents felt the crisis in schooling their deaf and dumb son in Bandipore, they migrated to Srinagar. Almost two decades later, the...
A Polytechnic Rescue
For two days sixty boys in the state-run polytechnic were hoping against the hope that they will be rescued. But they failed to even attract...
RTI Amulet
A carpenter, faith-healer healer has a huge crowd of people on weekends. But some of them return home without amulets, reports Umar Mukhtar
It was...
Barkat’s School
Started by a mother of seven to impart free education to the underprivileged, Buchwara’s Lowood School is now a splendid piece of history. To...
Towering Problems
With a height of 7.3 ft, Iqbal Doonu must be Kashmir’s tallest man. But the problems associated with his figure have grounded him, literally....
Batting Silently
After an accident in childhood left him deaf and dumb, Umar started playing cricket. By now he has won laurels in 92 national and...
Survived, Thrived
He was in second grade when an accident left his arms amputated. For next three years he shuttled between hospitals in Kashmir. Then he...
Lahori Designs
As her husband failed to get a job after they returned home with two daughters, the Pakistani wife of a Baramulla resident, revived her...
The Flatfoot
Why the cop manning the traffic in Islamabad’s most congested bottleneck for last many years is so popular and the most known face in...
Change of Heart
Despite a difficult childhood and lifelong disability Riyaz A Wani established himself as a professional singer. But then everything seemed out-of-sync as he had...
A Death Knock
One after another tragedies knocked at elderly Zaiba’s door leaving her at the mercy of her neighbours for survival. Aakash Hassan meets the family...
In Dignity of Labour
A lonely greying man who lives by selling cardboard scrap, has performed Haj, plans a second Mecca pilgrimage and is already a respected inspiration,...