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...
Singer In Need
His modest background and income apart, Mudacer Hassan Dar created a band that sings to raise donations for the people who are in dire...
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...
A Model Family
Umar Khurshid reports a family in which a blind man runs a provision store to feed his ailing, aged mother and blind sister
Mukhti Begum, 70,...
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...
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...
RTI Amulet
A carpenter, faith-healer healer has a huge crowd of people on weekends. But some of them return home without amulets, reports Umar Mukhtar
It was...
