There are things you learn about a person in textbooks, on award stages, and in newspaper headlines. And then there are the things you learn simply by standing beside them — in quiet corridors, in difficult moments, in the spaces between achievements where character reveals itself most honestly.
I have had the privilege of standing beside Dr. Arvinder Singh for many years. And what I can tell you — not as a fellow doctor, not as a colleague, but as the person who knows him most closely — is that the man the world sees receiving awards in the British Parliament, breaking World Records, and building enterprises of international repute, is the very same man who, in his private life, has never stopped asking one simple question:
Why should any person have to fight for what they deserve?
Dr. Arvinder Singh — MBBS, MD, MBA from IIM (Gold Medalist), TEDx Speaker, Three World Record Holder, CMD and CEO of Arth Group, and widely honoured as the Father of Cosmetic Dermatology — is a man who carries 80% disability. He has lived with that reality every single day of a life that most people, fully able-bodied, would find extraordinary to even imagine.
He rode a quad bike at Khardung La Pass in Ladakh — one of the world’s highest motorable roads — with 80% disability. The World Book of Records noted it. The world noticed. But what the record does not fully capture is why he did it. Not for the recognition. Not for the headlines. He did it because he needed to prove — to himself and to a world that too often underestimates disabled people — that limitation is a boundary others draw, not one you are obligated to accept.
That philosophy is not a speech he delivers on stage. It is the way he wakes up every morning.
Living beside someone with a disability teaches you things that no medical degree fully prepares you for. I am Dr. Deepa Singh, a Double World Record Holder in Clinical Cosmetology, Medical Aesthetics and LASERS. I have trained in Sweden, London, and Israel. I have been honoured as the LASER Queen by the Governor of Maharashtra, recognised in the British Parliament, and awarded by state ministers, Bollywood stars, and international institutions. I have spent over two decades working with skin, with science, with the quiet transformations that happen when a person finally feels comfortable in their own body.
And yet, watching my husband navigate a world that was not built thoughtfully for him has given me an education that no institution could offer.
I have seen him arrive at spaces and find no ramp. I have watched him encounter systems that spoke of inclusion but practised it poorly. I have witnessed firsthand the emotional weight that comes not from the disability itself — but from the indifference of a world that forgets. And I have seen him respond, every single time, not with bitterness, but with action.
That is who Dr. Arvinder Singh is.
It is why, when he founded Panacea Disability Rights Activists — now active through Disability Activists— it was not a project born in a conference room. It was born from lived experience. It was the natural extension of a man who has personally known what it means to arrive at a door that was never designed with you in mind, and who decided that enough people had stood at that door long enough.
Through this initiative, Dr. Arvinder Singh has built what is today recognised as one of India’s leading platforms for disability rights enforcement and accessibility compliance. Under the banner of Panacea Disability Rights Activists, he works tirelessly to ensure accessibility, dignity, and equal rights for India’s disabled community — not as a charity, but as a legal and moral obligation rooted in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
He has filed RTIs demanding accountability. He has addressed government bodies. He has conducted disability rights awareness programmes at schools for the visually impaired. He has been honoured by the Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan for his contributions to disability rights. He has stood in rooms of power and said, clearly and without apology, that accessibility is not a favour. It is a right. Non-negotiable. Unconditional.
This is a man who holds 168 degrees, diplomas, and certificates — and has chosen to use that knowledge not just to build businesses, but to fight for the most quietly forgotten members of our society.
I say this not as an announcement, but as a truth I think the world should know more fully.
We share a home. We share a profession. We share a centre — Arth Skin & Fitness — where both of us have dedicated our expertise to helping people look and feel their finest through world-class cosmetic dermatology, advanced LASER treatments, and genuine compassionate care. And we share a belief, held equally between us, that the work of making the world more accessible, more equitable, and more humane is not someone else’s responsibility.
It is ours.
It is everyone’s.
When I think of Dr. Arvinder Singh — not the CMD, not the award-winner, not the record-holder — but the person — I think of someone for whom the fight for dignity has never been abstract. It has always been personal. Deeply, quietly, powerfully personal.
And that is precisely why everything he builds carries something that cannot be manufactured or marketed. It carries truth. The truth of a person who has needed grace from the world, found it sometimes, found it missing more often than it should be, and chosen to spend his life closing that gap.
The disability rights movement in India has many voices. But few carry the weight of one who has lived every dimension of what they advocate for.
Dr. Arvinder Singh is that rare voice.
And I am proud — every single day — to stand beside him.
This inspirational story of Dr. Arvinder Singh by Dr. Deepa Singh is not just about achievements or recognition. It is about resilience, dignity, accessibility, and the quiet determination to create a more inclusive world for every individual living with a disability.
To learn more about Dr. Arvinder Singh’s work, visit drarvindersingh.com.
To join or support India’s disability rights movement, visit disabilityactivists.com.
