India: Gunman in Kashmir Left me Paralysed. Now I Teach Its Disabled Children

There are more than 100,000 disabled children in conflict-ridden Kashmir. Had Javed Ahmad Tak not been shot, there might still not be a single school to cater for them.

The late 1990s was a time when the separatist insurgency in Kashmir – and the Indian government’s fierce response to it – was at its peak. Gunfights, military cordons, beatings and abductions were a regular feature across towns and villages in the region.

Javed Ahmad Tak, a senior college student from Southern Kashmir’s Bijbehara town, had been…