Not In Ishrat
Six years ago, a tenth standard girl felt threatened in a situation and jumped from the first storey of her home in north Kashmir,...
Helping Brides
At the peak of Kashmir’s fat marriage season, a group of concerned women started thinking about the would-be brides lacking even the basics for...
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...
A Selfless Guide
In 2008, a young lady was hired on contract to teach specially abled kids in the city school. A year later, the authorities felt...
Unconventional Healer
A young lady doctor found a peculiar crisis among the city girls; they lacked access to better personal management during the specific days of...
Not A Glossy Life
At 17, circumstances forced Bilkees Khan to open a female exclusive shop. Gradually it upgraded into a beauty parlour, a South Kashmir first. As...
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,...
Model Teacher
Faheem Mir meets a Rehbar-e-Taleem teacher who donates her modest earnings to the poor students in her class. Her colleagues say she is maintaining...
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...
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....
