Says Devendra Jhajharia, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and two-time gold medallist Paralympian, who is also president of the Paralympic Committee of India Prachi Raturi Misra …. As a child, he loved climbing trees. The taller the tree, the more the excitement. It was yet another day for the eight-year-old Devendra who was scampering up a tree when he remembered a jolt of sorts. The next thing he remembers is waking up in a hospital bed. “My parents told me I got an electric shock of 11,000 volts from a live wire that was touching the tree branch. When the villagers...
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