India, Nov. 29 -- A demolition drive has overnight changed the fortunes of a young journalist in Jammu and Kashmir after his father's home, constructed over the state land, was demolished by the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) on Thursday during an anti-encroachment drive.

In less than 24 hours after the house of journalist Arfaz Ahmad Daing was flattened, he was flooded with offers from members of the civil society who came forward to lend him a helping hand. The journalist hogged the limelight as his video resisting the selective demolition drive went viral on social media. A day later, a rare example of brotherhood was set by a Hindu family from Jammu after their head of the family gifted a five marla plot of land to help him rebuil...