In August 2014, almost 50 Bajrang Dal men, armed with trishuls and rods had pulled him out of his tempo, attacked him and left him for dead.
"That morning when I left home for work, I promised to bring back a cycle for my child. I returned 4 months later from hospital...in a wheelchair," Abdul Shameer narrates. "I knew some of my attackers. I spoke to one of them by name. We have eaten together in a hotel, I said to him. Yet he attacked me, saying Ram Sena Ki Jai."
It was Abdul Shameer's destiny that he survived the deadly attack by "gau-rakshaks" in Mangalore. In August 2014, almost 50 Bajrang Dal men, armed with trishuls and rods had pulled him out of his tempo, attacked him and left him for dead. Once celebrated for its communal amity, coastal Karnataka has been a laboratory for hate-mongering and communal violence. This is the story of one man's survival despite a brutal and targeted hate crime. His family's dedication and Shameer's own will to recover have defied all the odds.