Thirty-Five-year-old Ankita Shah has become Ahmedabad’s First specially-abled woman auto rickshaw driver. Shattering all gender stereotypes and societal norms, Ankita decided to enter this male-dominated field. Shunning a desk job at a call centre, Ankita has been driving auto-rickshaw for six months to contribute to her father’s intestinal cancer treatment. Facing Hardships and Discrimination Ankita […]

Dr Michelle Harrison, quit her job and shifted base from New Jersey to Kolkata to care for the differently-abled girls. This is her story.

Bollywood has had several films with specially-abled/chronically unwell women as romantic leads. The latest to join this list is Anushka Sharma-Shah Rukh Khan Starer Zero, where the former is shown to have cerebral palsy.  Last year, in Mukkabaaz, we had an aphonic heroine and in 2012 the film Barfi! had a female lead with autism. While […]