Runjhun Hajarnis, 34, suffers from PVOD, a largely invisible illness which is a variant of Pulmonary Hypertension, which, in turn, prevents her from living life as normally as she would want to. As she says: "No one knows just by looking at you…
The Japanese art of Kintsugi is not only about repairing valuable broken ceramics with lacquer and gold, it celebrates the history of the breakage and repair which increases the value of the piece manifold. Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay, a great admirer of…
A toothache which turned out to be mouth cancer. Kashyap Dalal, 60 from Ahmedabad and his wife Hemal recall how he found out about his cancer during a dental check-up. A decade into his diagnosis and multiple recurrences, he now spends his time…
Jaya Jamrani, 42 is a senior Marketing Professional who had painful periods since she was a teenager. A severe abdominal pain attack led to a diagnosis of endometriosis. She spoke to us about her experience in dealing with endometriosis. She says, “…
Jaswinder Banga is a 26-year-old young man who was stopped in his tracks with a sudden diagnosis of the debilitating ankylosing spondylitis. While waiting for his critical surgery, he shares his travails since the diagnosis.
Please tell us about…
Manisha* was surprised when she started getting acute pain attacks in her abdomen. Investigations revealed she had endometriosis. Here she talks to us about the experience of dealing with it.
Can you tell me a bit more about your condition? When did…
Mr. Pramod Kumar, 89 was diagnosed with Age Related Macular Degeneration or AMD in 1980. Here he tells us how he has adapted to his disability over the last 25 years and continues to live life to the fullest.
The condition
AMD or Age Related Macular…
Shaurya Mehrotra,37 is an artist and a sculptor in his own right. He has his own studio as well. With loving encouragement from his parents, Shaurya, is a happy young man today, full of vim and raring to go. His father Anil Mehrotra pens for us what…
Smrithy Rajesh,44 from Bangalore had to take into account how her younger son Advaith, 17, who is on the autism spectrum, would fare when she decided to go in for surgery, and whether other members in her household would be able to support him the…
