Dared to dream and won!
Deccan ChronicleAfter winning the silver medal in badminton at the recently-concluded 2020 Paralympics, and making history as the first Indian Administrative Service officer to take the victory stand at a Paralympics event, Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj straightaway resumed his duties as District Magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar. He bagged a gold medal at the 2016 Asian Para-Badminton Championships, Beijing, when he was the Magistrate of UP’s Azamgarh District, becoming the first Indian bureaucrat to win a professional international badminton event. “Being a District Magistrate, I needed to perform my duties, yet keep myself tournament-ready, which was a tough task,” he says. I didn’t want to let pressure affect me,” he says, adding that the biggest realisation for him was that challenge takes place “between the ears.” The Computer Engineering graduate from NIT Karnataka says he is glad he’s been able to dispel the myth that studies and sports cannot go hand-in-hand.
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