'Daughters are a blessing, should've educated her': Migrant father of teen who cycled over 1,200 km to bring him home sees her in new light
4 years, 7 months ago

'Daughters are a blessing, should've educated her': Migrant father of teen who cycled over 1,200 km to bring him home sees her in new light

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Cycling single-handedly for over 1,200 kilometres along with her 45-year-old ailing father, 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari reached her Sirauli home in Bihar’s Darbhanga after a week-long journey from Haryana’s Gurugram last Saturday. “The person who sold us the cycle saw that we were in a bad condition and agreed to sell us a cycle on loan,” she said, “If my father could walk, we wouldn’t have had to buy this cycle.” Hesitant and afraid of what might happen on the way, Jyoti’s father had initially refused. Donald Trump’s daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump on Friday tweeted: 15 yr old Jyoti Kumari, carried her wounded father to their home village on the back of her bicycle covering +1,200 km over 7 days. On Ivanka’s tweet, the 15-year-old said, “If I become a cycling champion someday, I would love to meet her.” Meanwhile, Jyoti’s mother wishes that Jyoti’s aspiration of studying further gets fulfilled someday.

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Father of Bihar's 'cycle girl' Jyoti Kumari dies of cardiac arrest
3 years, 7 months ago

Father of Bihar's 'cycle girl' Jyoti Kumari dies of cardiac arrest

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Mohan Paswan, the father of bicycle girl Jyoti Kumari, passed away on Monday after he suffered a cardiac arrest at his native place in Bihar's Darbhanga district. Jyoti, a 15-year-old, had shot to fame last year when she cycled around 1200 km, all the way from Gurugram in Haryana to Bihar's Darbhanga district, with her incapacitated father Mohan Paswan seated …

Covid-19 lockdown: 15-year-old girl brings father from Gurugram to Bihar on bicycle
4 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 lockdown: 15-year-old girl brings father from Gurugram to Bihar on bicycle

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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. Kumari, a lion-hearted 15-year-old, cycled all the way from Gurugram in Haryana to Bihar's Darbhanga district with her incapacitated father Mohan Paswan seated on the carrier. At that time …

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