Mubashir Naik
Bio:
Mubashir Naik is an independent journalist based in Indian-administered Kashmir. He covers court beat, culture, human rights, gender issues.
Villagers often work in the mines, one of the only employers in Budhpura, and nearly all of them are eventually diagnosed with silicosis, a fatal and incurable lung disease. With their husbands gone and no alternative income sources to support themselves and their children, widows join the same profession that killed their husbands.
Using funds from her own pocket, one retired schoolteacher has been providing free education for children in one Indian slum for the last 13 years.