Nipun Malhotra (left) with a beneficiary of his initiative that connects those who need wheelchairs to donors who can financially pitch in

For a Delhi School of Economics postgraduate student, who had graduated from the prestigious St Stephen’s College and topped the country in business studies in the 12th standard, landing a job in a placement interview should have been a cakewalk. “But the interviewers were not looking at Nipun Malhotra; for them, I was a person in a wheelchair,” says the 30-year-old, citing one of the many instances of discrimination that led him to start the Nipman Foundation in New Delhi that works in health and advocacy for persons with disabilities.