Once unsure if she could even climb up the stage, Sweta Mantrii has now completed over 300 comedy shows and is committed to making public spaces more inclusive for people with disabilities.
From playing basketball in a wheelchair to establishing her own spice business, Sumarty from Kashmir has shattered multiple stereotypes to prove her mettle despite her disability.
Just as he prepared to board the train entering Barauni station, he felt a strong push from the frenzied crowd behind him. The train was hardly ten steps away. But the teenager had fallen onto the tracks.
In the face of initial opposition from their own near and dear ones, the Samarthanam trust came forward to fill the void and decided to get the couple married.
Today, Dr Malvika Iyer, apart from a bomb blast survivor, is also a social worker, a PhD scholar, an international motivational speaker, a disability rights activist and a Global Shaper under the World Economic Forum.
Even a terrible car accident in 2012, which paralysed him from the chest down, did not deter the now 29-year-old. His latest record in the Limca book of records was for driving across the breadth of India – from Arunachal Pradesh’s Tezu to Gujarat’s Koteshwar. This was part of his campaign ‘Accessible India’, to make the nation a more accessible place for Divyangs (persons with disability).