Fifteen year old Jyoti Kumari’s grit and determination are matchless when she cycled her injured father back home to Bihar. Covering a distance of 1,200 km on cycle from Gurugram, in Haryana, Jyoti Kumari took up the impossible task any teenager of her age can think of.
Jyoti Kumari’s father used to earn his living by whatever he got out of running his e-rickshaw. But fate took its turn when he met with an accident a few months ago leaving him injured and bedridden.
Cycling almost 1,200 km with a debilitated person riding pillion could be a daunting task even for professional athletes, leave alone an ordinary teenager and that too amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In this case, the heavily-stacked odds against Bihar girl Jyoti Kumari were no match for her grit.
Lion-hearted 15-year-old Kumari from Bihar’s Darbhanga district cycled all the way from with her incapacitated father Mohan Paswan seated on the carrier.
Now the father-daughter duo is at a quarantine centre near their village Sirhulli under Singhwara block of the district. Kumari is determined not to let her father return to Gurugram where he was driven to penury following an accident a few months ago that rendered him unfit to make a living as an e-rickshaw driver.
