India, March 9 -- Gurleen Kaur, 25, is unable to hear or speak. An arts student, she was born a premature baby of seven months and 850g. Given up for dead, her distraught parents were departing from hospital to purchase white cloth for their first-born's final rites. A last-ditch effort by doctors revived her still heart. Gurleen got a miraculous second life.

Gurleen's perilous entry into life left her with severe impairments. But she could draw, and nature was always there to nourish her sensitive yearnings and balm her pained soul. She passed her school examinations with a flourish. Her school teachers encouraged her to draw/ paint whenever she got frustrated and depressed at her isolation. Gurleen secured a berth at the Government Col...