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Here's an inspiring video of artist Muniba Mazari, who experienced a horrendous accident at a tender age. Discover how she changes her life.
Here’s an inspiring video of artist Muniba Mazari, who experienced a horrific accident as a young adult. Discover how she transformed her life.
Pakistani artist Muniba Mazari was travelling from Baluchistan to her hometown, when her car driver fell asleep. Misfortune struck. The car fell into a ditch. This brave artist received multiple injuries. Three vertebrae of her backbone was completely crushed. And this was just one of the major injuries that she received. After not getting admission in any of the nearby hospitals in and around that area, she finally got admitted to a hospital in Karachi.
She crossed those painful days in the hospital with much difficulty and struggle. Muniba Mazari almost gave up on life. Later she realized that there was no point whining. She began to paint. Thus her painting journey began. An artist was born. “That’s how I added colours in my colourless life”, she said. Art kept her alive. She gradually began a professional career in content writing. And that gave her financial stability.
There was an advertisement campaign she saw, where a boy suffering from polio was sympathized about by his own father. That advertisement struck a chord deep down in her heart. She felt that this boy with disabilities was portrayed in such a wrong light by the media. And her mission was to change that perception. She believed that a disabled person or an individual bound to a wheel chair can still face the world head on.
Today she’s Pakistan’s first wheelchair bound model and brand ambassador of ‘Body Shop’ Pakistan. She’s one of the few wheelchair bound artists in the world. Muniba Mazari is the perfect icon for all those individuals who are disabled and challenged in some way or the other. She’s proven that nothing can stop her, despite her disabilities.
She rightly says “I am caged by my body, but my mind is free, so is my soul, so is my spirit.” Enjoy her inspiring video.
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Diana has worked as an Editor/Writer and Content Manager for various digital platforms and hopes that each word written in this space supports, motivates and inspires her readers in India or across seas. Besides read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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