Persons with Disabilities

“Although all our operations shut, we knew that we had to continue working to help those who were at their most vulnerable.”

Today, at 17, Kerala-based Noor Jaleela is a budding artist who not only paints but also plays the violin, belts out songs melodiously and shares the stage with stalwarts such as KS Chithra and Stephen Devassy.

The para-athlete who was felicitated at a Delhi stadium on Monday revealed how he is still unemployed and is helping his mother run a paan/gutkha shop.

Arwa was born and brought up in a Kashmiri family in which four members were speech and hearing-impaired. So, growing up she had always been sensitive to their needs because she witnessed first-hand their struggles to communicate with people around them.

This battle came to its destined end on Tuesday, 11 days after the family knocked the doors of the Calcutta High Court.

Launched in Bengaluru in 2015, the Inclov app helps differently abled persons connect to prospective partners online, and interact with them personally through its offline meetups.

November 1 marked the day of victory for the mother-son duo when the Chief Justice Bench of the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi government to provide a prosthetic limb to the differently abled kid within the span of two months.

Born in a Delhi family of engineers, this young music producer and disc jockey is breaking barriers and establishing himself in the world of music.

Nidhi Goyal is India’s first disabled woman comedian, using humour to challenge existing notions around disability, gender and sexuality.

A road accident, at the age of 21, led to a major spinal cord injury. Many unsuccessful surgeries later, she was rendered wheelchair-bound for life. But, Rajalakshmi doesn’t think her physical disability has been an obstacle in chasing her dreams or carving her own identity.