As someone living with fragile bone disorder since she was a kid, odds were always against Ummul Kher.
This week she cracked the civil services exam in her first attempt.
Kher, who has received 16 fractures and eight surgeries due to her disease, came to Delhi from Rajasthan when she was around five years old.
Her father then worked as street vendor selling clothes near Hazrat Nizamuddin while the family lived in a nearby slum.
Kher took admission in Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute for The Physically Handicapped, where she studies till Class 5.
Life was difficult, but what came after that was “both difficult and painful” as Kher puts it.
Sehnag Begum, who lives in Trilokpuri where Kher lived for around three years said, “She is a brave child. »