JAMMU, July 30 -- An amputee woman from Uttar Pradesh, who has been undertaking the annual pilgrimage to the Machail Mata temple in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar on a hand-operated tricycle for the past eight years, and a devotee crawling towards the Amarnath cave shrine, have emerged as symbols of resilience and unwavering faith Jyoti, who lost both her legs in a train accident in 2015, is once again making the arduous trek to the Mata Machail shrine, accompanied by her mother, a rescued pet monkey named Bajrangi and her dog Kalu.
Hand-peddling her tricycle along the mountainous route, all the way from Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district, Jyoti says her she left for the pilgrimage some two months ago.
"I have been visiting Mata Machail ...