A Brave Heart
By fishing out more than two dozen bodies and saving several men alive from different water bodies, Lelhar’s fisherman has earned a huge reputation,...
A Generational Struggle
Soon after partition a Pakistani man and a UP lady met and settled in Srinagar. Three generations later, the family is fighting odds to...
Batting Blindly
When he closed his eyes forever in the lap of his mother, barely six months after his birth, Irfan was brought up in a...
A Reading Light
Moved by the plight of her blind nephew, Naza Bano shuns promising career options to help specially-abled kids like him. She shuttles between three...
Dignified Life Explained
When a crisis hits a family, especially its head, what happens? In most of the cases, the wives desert them and settle somewhere else....
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....
Exceptional Writer
A man who has picked up the art of calligraphy from his ancestors, decided to transfer the art to children for free, after retirement....
Cliff Hanger
For lack of facilities around and the inability to have an attendant with him all the time, Ashraf discontinued his studies. One day, a...
The Family Gold
A Jammu jewellers’ family owns some of the rarest pieces of Islamic calligraphy and it includes two specimens of the Quran which require a...
The Zoji La Hero
If the Zoji La is cleared off the mass snow accumulations for an early access to Ladakh, it is just not machine but a...
Virtual Communication
A young man with a well to do background has not let his inability to hear and speak dominate his life. He uses smart...
Rediscovering Life
A boy lost his eyesight to a hereditary disease and was restricted to his home. After failed attempts to take his own life, a...
Making of a scholar
After a school-going student was tortured to fetch information about a wanted militant, he got severe retina injury that led him to lose his...
Lending Voice and Ears
It was her mother’s disability that forced young Arwa to master signs language so that she could communicate with her. But once she mastered...
Chai Walla
After losing almost everything to the deadly earthquake in 2005, Haneef lost his wife to the shock a year later. Well before, he could...
