The recognition
PIB’s December 2024 account identifies Mumbai’s Keya Hatkar, then 14, as a Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar recipient in Art and Culture. It describes her as an author and inclusion advocate, and names two books: Dancing On My Wheels and IM Possible.
Let the work lead
For this draft, the focus is her writing and the public recognition attached to it. We have not conducted an interview or obtained permission to republish passages from her books.
We also avoid repeating private or medical details simply because they appear in another account. A profile can recognise a creator without reducing that person to a diagnosis.
Whose perspective is missing from the stories you read? Write a short scene that makes space for someone usually left out, then ask how you could learn more before representing their experience. This is a prompt from our editors, not a quotation from Keya or a description of her writing method.
SOURCES
- PIB Mumbai · 26 December 2024 ↗ · Government award report
