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Chasing Dreams, BLINDLY

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Owing to the dysfunctional and non-registered J&K Blind Cricket Association, some international visually impaired cricketers who have played for the unrecognized J&K team, share their gratifying life stories and ordeals related to it that go beyond their Para-athletic career, Syed Ahmad Rufai ( arufai143@gmail.com ) narrates their stories. Chasing Dreams, BLINDLY (Illustration/Syed Ahmad Rufai) Umer Sidiq’s world spins around imagination. As he enters his office in the Rajinder Nagar area of New Delhi, he reaches for the smooth surface of door- but the color of it unknown to him, sniffs a whiff of potpourri and overhears colleagues chit chatting, as he walks past them. His senses are more powerful than ever now, but every time he opens his eyes- it is dark. Umer was born to his teenage parents with congenital blindness. Of a total of 66,448 blind souls- 25,656 comprises males and the remaining 30,792 females, as per the 2011 census. An all-rounder on the cricket field,
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SOS Situation

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  By Syed Ahmad Rufai SOS Situation (Illustration/Syed Ahmad Rufai) A silent nature’s environmental crisis i.e. climate change poses a threat any bigger than a nuke attack. It overall impacts the glaciers, society, rivers, forests, economy and ecosystem. The CO2 levels are rising since 1950’s industrial revolution, and the widely accepted reason behind it are human activities. The planet is getting warmer rapidly due to consumption of fossil fuels and products obtained from animals emitting methane. The UN predicts earth getting warmer by 2% w.r.t pre-industrial stage by the year 2100, but we are already at 1.5%. The factors add on to the crisis- heat waves around the world and temperature hitting the highest mercury of all times has taken lives of few until now. Europe being colder than the Artic…. sea levels are rising due to warmer temperatures. But, the repercussions are wider. Climate Change has had deleterious impact on the cold valley cupped between mountains. The valley f
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