Born in Margipora, a remote village in Pattan, Baramulla. The shadow of my father rose when i was a toddler. My utterly moneyless mother coping with the merciless slaps of misery, enrolled me in Banat Institute of Education, a boarding school for poor and orphan girls run by JKYT at Gopalpora, Budgam...

As some had rightly said, "If life is tough you should be tougher. If life is persistent, you should be relentless." My name is Ateequl Islam. The doom overspread our family only after four months of my birth with the sudden death of my father, leaving behind a young wife and three children.