‘People Saw Her Diagnosis Before They Saw Her’: How a Mother Built a Platform for Artists With Disabilities

A paintbrush moves slowly across the paper. Dhriti is focused on the colours in front of her, adding one shade after another to a painting that, to someone else, may simply look like a piece of art. But to her mother, Shweta Runwal, moments like these hold a much deeper meaning. Years ago, when Dhriti was still a little girl and could speak only in single words, she came home with a diary. On one of its pages, she had drawn two stick figures. One of them was crying. Shweta was worried and asked

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