Disability

Dhaval Khatri lost both his hands at the age of 14 and his school asked him to leave. But no such obstacle could stop him from continuing his education, writing all his exams himself, playing guitar and finally – painting.

Jaskaran Singh, a 27-year-old student with spinal cord injury at the cervical level, has successfully made his way to the Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management department at IIM Bengaluru.

This paralysed woman believes people with disabilities can do without reservations and donations to lead quality lives. With this thought she started an NGO that trains differently-abled people to become independent.

Sarthak Kamath may be physically challenged but he has a lot more to do in life than worry about what he can’t do. The 24-year-old with a neuromuscular disease is now on his way to becoming a doctor so he can help people.

A quadriplegic, also known as tetraplegic, suffers from paralysis caused by illness or injury that results in the partial or total loss of use of all four limbs and torso. Jitendra Biswal, a quadriplegic, has just made and acted in a film about a person with such extreme disability and his relationship with a normal girl.

She was teased mercilessly by other children when she was young. She hated school. Yet, she went on to not only study medicine but also to win the hearts of all her colleagues and co-workers. Meet the lady who did not let her short stature come in the way of standing tall.

Janarthanan is a 24-year-old mouth artist. He lost both his hands in a devastating accident at the age of eight, and has been facing each day like a challenge since then. He has won more than 150 prizes in painting competitions since 2003, including two national awards. This is his story of determination and grit, narrated through his beautiful art.

Raushan Jawwad, a 23-year-old student of KEM Hospital and College in Mumbai, secured first class in her final MBBS examination. This success comes eight years after she lost both her legs in a train accident near Andheri station in 2008.

When Maria Josephine’s 5-month-old daughter Priya was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, this mother took on the challenge of giving her daughter an independent life. But that is not all she did – over the years she became a certified special educator to help other kids with this condition and created awareness among hundreds of parents, hospitals, anganwadi workers, and more.

Meet Vilas Shinde – a man whose indomitable spirit is taking Ataxia, a debilitating condition, by its horns. This is his inspiring story as he fights a daily battle for dignity and survival.