On this episode, Sameera Reddy is joined by India’s first wheelchair-using model, Virali Modi. Virali is also a disability rights activist and motivational speaker. Sameera chats with her about the incident that changed her life at age 15 and left her paralysed from the waist down, the strength that her mother’s love gave her to keep her alive and the need for more disability representation in the media.

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CREDITS:
Host: Sameera Reddy
Guest: Virali Modi
Executive Producer: Umashan Naidoo
Creative Director: Liana Deboo
Created by Westside

This is a Maed in India production.
Head of Production: Mae Mariyam Thomas
Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome
Recording Engineer: Kartik Kulkarni
Sound Editor & Mix Engineer: Lakshman Parsuram
Senior Producer: Ruchi Sawardekar
Junior Producer: Jyoti Chaurasiya
Director: Dinkar Dwivedi
Video Editor: Jishnu Guha
Recorded at Island City Studios