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...
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...
Educator Par Excellence
A trained engineer and a passionate teacher holds his class in an open ground well before the sunrise and this model of teaching in...
Face off with life
Saima was 15 when she survived an IED blast, defaced. An unsuccessful facial surgery led to scores of correctional surgeries, but that has not...
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...
Mobilising Immobility
After a life changing injury left him bed-ridden Dildar Ahmad Shapo, refused to spend time cursing his luck. Instead, he drove from Kashmir to...
Bridging A Village
A fisherwoman stopped going to sell her husband’s catch after situation prevented her leaving her five daughters unguarded at home. In 30 years, she...
Passing the body on
A Muslim undertaker Muhammad Yaseen Dar performed the last rites for Pandits at Batamloo crematory for almost a decade. Dar died in 2008 and...
Sightless, not visionless
He can see the world only through the light of Quran. After losing eyesight at an early age Ghulam Hassan Wagay illuminated his life...
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...
Manuscript Man
Nothing hinders Manzoor Daikoo from collecting rare Kashmiri manuscripts, not even his financial constraints. Hamidullah Dar interacts with the manuscript man …
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...
Listing the needy
Syed Mohd Hussain Haqqani was a small time social preacher until a poor widow stirred her conscience. Since then he has been on a...
Overcoming helplessness
A Kunan Poshpora rape victim refuses to be condemned and cocooned in shame. She runs a self-help group with other such victims, helping them...
My Friend Bakk
The story of Ilyas Najeeb is one out of the jungle book. He nursed an injured leopard cub for eighteen months at his house...
