Thanks to Moy-Moy, there's hope for handicapped children

Why the trials of an adopted child with celebral palsy are a blessing for other disabled kids

Young Uma Moy Moy Chopra’s stars changed almost as soon as she came into this world. Born as the 13th child to the wife of a potato farmer in Uttarakhand, Moy Moy’s birth itself happened by sheer chance. The farmer’s wife had made up her mind to abort the child (she had conceived despite sterilisation), but the doctor she went to said she had a family who was willing to adopt her baby in a private adoption.

The 13th child of a mother who’d given birth 12 times previously, born on the side of a road, 12 weeks premature,