{"id":69797,"date":"2025-03-03T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/mar\/03\/i-focus-on-the-person-not-the-disability-the-photographer-on-a-mission-to-make-india-inclusive"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:00:29","slug":"i-focus-on-the-person-not-the-disability-the-photographer-on-a-mission-to-make-india-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69797","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I focus on the person, not the disability\u2019: the photographer on a mission to make India inclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending four years meeting people all over the country, Vicky Roy\u2019s new book, Everyone is Good at Something, contains 100 inspirational life stories to raise awareness and combat taboos<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photographs by Vicky Roy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Bikram Bhattarai, getting to school meant being carried by his father, Narpati, across the hilly terrain of Gangtok in the north Indian region of Sikkim. The half-hour journey each way was especially treacherous when the rains came and Bhattarai, who was born without arms, sometimes had to ask classmates to help carry him, too.<\/p>\n<p>Now 21, he is at college studying history and enjoys writing poetry and listening to rappers including Eminem and Nepal\u2019s Yama Buddha. But his true passion is art, he says, as he shares a sketch of an open palm holding a butterfly, drawn with his feet.<\/p>\n<p>Bikram Bhattarai, a college student from Gangtok in Sikkim who was born without arms, loves art and has taught himself to draw with his feet<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/mar\/03\/i-focus-on-the-person-not-the-disability-the-photographer-on-a-mission-to-make-india-inclusive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending four years meeting people all over the country, Vicky Roy\u2019s new book, Everyone is Good at Something, contains 100 inspirational life stories to raise awareness and combat taboosPhotographs by Vicky RoyFor Bikram Bhattarai, getting to sch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,1020,59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-disability","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69821,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69797\/revisions\/69821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}