Som Patidar

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds |Som Patidar

It was an innocuous thing any five-year-old would do. When Sadia Sulaiman was a child, construction work on her neighbour's house produced the perfect place to play — a mud pit. So she did. She played in it, came home and had a bath. Then, the fever hit. For 21 days, she had high temperatures. One night, a doctor gave her an injection. By the next morning, she could not walk. "My legs were not good," she recalls.

Feb 18, 2025 | abc.net.au | Ellie Grounds |Som Patidar

The last time Pakistan hosted an international cricket tournament, Meher Mohammad Khalil became a hero. But it wasn't for scoring centuries or leading his country to victory. It was for saving the opposing Sri Lankan team's lives. Mr Khalil, a bus driver, was chauffeuring the Sri Lankans in 2009 from their Lahore hotel to Gaddafi Stadium when armed militants opened fire on their bus. "They were firing on us from all sides," Mr Khalil recalled. "I put on the brakes and wondered what was happening.

Sep 16, 2024 | abc.net.au | Meghna Bali |Som Patidar

Like millions of people in India, Prinjal dreamt of migrating to Australia in search of a better life. The 19-year-old had made up her mind about it when she was just a girl, taken by the country's freedom, education system and potential to earn money. So she was thrilled when she received her enrolment certificate for Willows Institute, a private college in Adelaide last December. "Everyone here was expecting me to leave any day. They even bought bags so I could start packing," she told 7.30.

Mar 16, 2024 | abc.net.au | Meghna Bali |Som Patidar

Krishna Bahadur Shai was lured to Russia with the promise of a better life. Instead, he found himself used as cannon fodder in Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. Everything went wrong on a biting cold day in December, when he was walking through a forest in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia. WARNING: Readers might find some of the details in this story distressing. It snowed as he and several other Nepalese nationals collected wood that would be used to build a bunker for the Russian army.

Jan 22, 2024 | abc.net.au | Avani Dias |Meghna Bali |Som Patidar

Posted 9 minutes agoDecades after a sacred mosque was violently demolished by Hindu nationalists, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled a brand new temple on the site at the centre of a centuries-long religious rift. Hindu holy men and pilgrims dressed in saffron robes chanted in the streets while local Muslims hid at home, as the ancient town of Ayodhya marked the end of one of the most divisive chapters in India's history.