Oldest Kashmiri Alive?
How long do you wish your loved ones to live? A hundred years? At 132 and having never taken any medicine must be a...
More Than Paying Back
A family displaced by the political turmoil and the armed conflict in the early 1990s returns to give their ancestral village, a dream-school. A...
Unbreakable Spirit
They say life isn’t about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself. Ashiq Hussain profiles a ‘disabled’ cricketer, whose passion for cricket, and life-helped...
Their Own Beacons
From the darkrooms of SKIMS six visually impaired technicians have made numerous patients happy and doctors proud. Nazir Ganaie reports.
Beeline of patients, waiting for...
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...
Ability Amplified
At first glance, Javed Tak would seem like a man with a disability, a man who has resigned himself to a life of pity...
Muslim Pujari
This Pujari, the keeper of a temple in Gulmarg, prays five times every day in the local mosque. He is a Muslim but has...
Raw Courage
Last month when a cloudburst nearly swept away three people including two children in Tral, a gallant young man jumped into trouble saving their...
Hear my song
Radio Kashmir employs many visually and physically handicapped as contract employees. Though they earn a meagre sum, for some it is the only source...
Grit does not need arms
Born without arms, Mohammed Sultan taught himself to write with his feet. He is now pursuing his master’s at University of Kashmir and aspires...
Steel willed woman
It is easy to succumb during adversity; it is equally difficult to face it, especially when you are a woman. Hamidullah Dar reports the...
In a world you can’t see
Visually impaired Sanya Zehra had to wait to go to school, till she was 11. At 17 now, she has secured 89 per cent...
Warrior On Crutches
It took a seven-year-long battle in courts for Gulzar Ahmad Mir to secure compensation from the army for his legs lost to a landmine....
Weathering a storm
When circumstance left her husband incapacitated, Shamima turned to Pashmina weaving, and went on to set up an enterprise that helps thousands of women...
A charitable heart
At 73, Peerzaada Hamidullah Qadri, devotes himself to running a charitable trust. Aliya Bashir reports. After a long teaching career Peerzaada Hamidullah Qadri retired...
