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Indian Army Soldier Naik Suresh Kumar Karki, A Paraplegic Badminton Champion

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Indian Army Soldier Naik Suresh Kumar Karki

रख हौसला वो मंजर भी आयेगा,

प्यासे के पास चल के समुन्दर भी आयेगा ,

थक कर न बैठ ऐ मंजिल के मुसाफिर,

मंजिल भी मिलेगी ….

और मिलने का मज़ा भी आयेगा !

At 28, Naik Suresh Kumar Karki suffered an injury to his spinal cord that would change his life forever. From safeguarding his country’s pride in warfare, he turned to defending national honour in sport. All because of a freak accident—he did not take the bullet for his team in the literal sense of battle, but was in a car crash while trying to save a wounded friend after an insurgency attack.

Years later and now a paraplegic, his optimism is infectious. He never once speaks of his disability except to tell me of everything he has done since his injury. “There are many heroes at our rehabilitation centre,” he emphasises. One does not doubt that Suresh is one of them.

One long road In July 2004, Suresh was serving in the 2/9 Gorkha Rifles which was then posted in Assam. A soldier was wounded by a bullet during an insurgency, and Suresh was taking his friend to Guwahati Army Hospital in an army ambulance. The ambulance met with an accident with a civilian passenger bus an hour away from the hospital.

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