A Lady Karvaan
Mehru N Nisa meets the young female scribe who crowdsources book to establish libraries for the underprivileged
For the inmates at Daarul Muhsinaat, an orphanage...
Scavenging A Living
For him collecting trash from Wullar Lake is a way of life, and a means to sustenance. Meet Bilal, who started at 13, now...
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...
Painful Walk
A young boy who was inflicted by polio in his childhood could not bear the economic crisis of his ailing parents. The specially-abled drags...
Muslim Pujari
This Pujari, the keeper of a temple in Gulmarg, prays five times every day in the local mosque. He is a Muslim but has...
Braveheart Saviours
A group of roadside vendors say they are obliged to save lives because God gives them the chance. Shazia Khan reports about the foursome...
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...
Mission Education
A struggling couple had no capacity to get their specially abled daughter educated. As the husband died of a disease, the widow, a fisherwoman,...
Peace Walker
A “peace walker” from Kashmir valley is back to home after 16 long years of eventful life which took him from Mumbai to Mauritius....
Nailing A Demon
In a system where human rights are violated with impunity, few dare to fight a battle for justice. Shazia Khan narrates the story of...
Face of resistance
From an ordinary woman striving to trace her son picked up by troops, Parveena Ahanger turned into champion of civil rights for all such...
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...
The Bridging Couple
For almost five decades a couple has been rowing a boat to keep two Kashmir villages, lacking a bridge, stay connected. They worked on...
Preserving A Heritage
In 1998 Munshi brothers of Kargil were demolishing their ancestral inn, when they discovered a treasure trove of artefacts. Rather than bringing them wealth,...
Punished To Blindness
It was corporal punishment by his teacher that blinded him. Later when an operation returned his one eye, soldiers came and took it away....