When he was barely three, Sahil Baghdadi began to show symptoms of autism, leaving his mother Alka concerned. “It was the early 1990s, and we were not aware of the condition. I had never heard of autism until then nor had I read anything about it,” shares Alka. She made it her mission to collect all the information she could about the disorder, even giving up her journalism career to invest time in bringing up her son. 

Sahil and Alka Baghdadi