Q. What is your name, age, where do you live?
A. I am Amir, a 17-year-old studying in class 10. I live in Santacruz.
Q. Tell us about your family and friends. Who is your best friend? Why?
A. I live with my four brothers and one sister and my mother and father. I am the youngest of all and the most loved. My best friend is Azam because we both study and draw together.
Q. What do you like doing in your free time?
A. I love playing cricket, being with my friends and roaming around with them especially in Andheri and Bandra.
Q. What are your hobbies?
A. I love playing cricket, being with my friends and roaming around especially in Andheri and Bandra.
Q. How do you come to school? Do you like coming here? Tell us what you like the most?
A.I stay in Santacruz so I first take the train till Bandra, get off the train and take a bus to reach Bandra Kurla Complex. I like coming to school because I get to play carom and cricket at school.
Q. What do you come here and do? Which is your favourite/least favourite subject?
A. We first have the prayer in school, then we are served breakfast after which we study and play. Any sports activity is my most favourite thing to do. I love playing carom and cricket in school as it is my favourite thing.
Q. Tell us your favourite subject.
A. Math and History are two of my favourite subjects.
I will go to college, learn English and one day, I will become a big guy. I shall work in a mall and I also plan to go outside of India. I will go to Saudi Arabia.
Q. When do you feel Happy? Sad? Scared? Angry?
A. I feel sad when girls do not talk to me! From all the girlfriends that I have, Muskan is my favourite friend. She is beautiful and so good at drawing!
Q. India is an independent country. Did you know that? What does that mean?
A. Yes! That means that no one is ruling us and that we are all free now.
Q. What does freedom mean to you?
A. I feel free when I am on my own and when I am with my friends as there are no restrictions.
Q. Tell us what you love, what inspires you? Or Who inspires you? Why?
A. I love Virat Kholi because he is the best! I did not feel sad when India lost the World Cup, because it is a game.
Q. If you had given a superpower, what would you like to do/change about your life?
A. I would become Shah Rukh Khan for a day.
#ThisAbilityMatters is a co-created campaign with Save The Children India that aims to push the discourse on the need for self-reliance and independence of India’s disabled children.
