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APN where dreams get wings after calamities
The New Indian Express
|February 23, 2025
THIS Army centre is different. It is a life-giver-a place where injured Armymen can turn their nightmare into a beautiful dream and conjure inspiring tales of fortitude and belief. It's the story of the Army Paralympic Node, Pune, the country's only centre that helps to rehabilitate injured soldiers through sports.
They are some of the fittest people on earth until calamity strikes, either during deadly operations, training or even freak accidents. Some are confined to wheelchairs while others walk with the help of an artificial limb or are without fingers and hands. Their normal world turns into a life of endless ordeal. If not for sport, they would have languished in the abyss of depression.
This story is from the February 23, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express.
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