Half Steps
As world readies itself to bid goodbye to Polio for good, Safwat Zargar meets Shabir Ahmad Dagloo, who despite his handicap and penury, voluntarily...
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...
A Friend In Deed
Down south in Waltengu Nar, Khalid Bashir Gura met a wheelchair-bound shopkeeper whose life moved from one tragedy to another. Without giving up, he...
Weatherman Jr
A young undergraduate passionate about weather forecasting has emerged as the new weatherman in virtual Kashmir, reports Minhaj Masoodi
If the weather is gloomy or...
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...
Universal Donor
A labourer in a stone quarry, Showkat Ali Wani, runs an NGO dealing with first aid and blood donations. With an O negative blood...
Manuscript Man
Nothing hinders Manzoor Daikoo from collecting rare Kashmiri manuscripts, not even his financial constraints. Hamidullah Dar interacts with the manuscript man …
Makeover Man
Pained by the amount of garbage littering his once beautiful village, an NRK rushed home and took a broom to do the job. Jibran...
A musical vision
Dost Mohammad Khan was three when he lost his eyesight. That did not stop him from becoming the first graduate in his family, or...
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...
Fight for a right
Born with a neurological disorder, Syed Bashir-ud-din Qadri, has fought with life to pursue education. It took further fighting - in courts - to...
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...
Defeating Disability
Crippled after losing control of his lower limbs by bullet injuries during an incident of cross firing, Arshad Pandit, a young Kashmir innovator defeated...
Preserving the Past
At an age when people retire, Atiqa Bano set up a museum to preserve and display rare artefacts and manuscripts of Kashmir. Majid Maqbool...
Not a human’s job
For two decades, Maqbool was the only autopsy man in Kashmir. He tells Zubair A. Dar that knifing thousands of bodies has taken toll...
