"It's ironic that I, an Occupational Therapist who helped the sick get back on their feet, should be reduced to a quadriplegic state through a freak shooting accident," says the 50-year-old Johar of that fateful day 13 years ago. Paralysed chest down, Johar, married with two children, returned from Lucknow where he worked at the St George's Medical College. To a life at B I/500, Janakpuri, Delhi, confined to a windowless, airless room.