translator

From dawn to dusk, he is just a daily wage labourer from the neighbourhood. Returning home from a hard day’s toil, he would settle at his writing desk and translate essays, stories and even entire books!

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.