A few minutes before Murlikant Petkar sat to commit suicide at Ashwini Naval Hospital in 1967, a sweeper came rushing towards him and asked Rs 10 for ‘Matka’, a popular form of street gambling.
Petkar – who will swallow 30 sleeping pills who accumulate carefully with alcohol – hand over the RS 100 sweeper instead.
When the sweeper suggested that he also had to bet on the same number, Petkar gave him 100-rupee note but asked him to put it on his last digit number which was higher than that appeared in the sweeper’s dream.
The next morning, Petkar’s body would not only dispose of liquor and pills but also felt the need to urinate for the first time since the decisive day in October 1965 when the bullet pelted his body.
Realizing that he had won Matka in the amount of Rs 40,000, the bladder Petkar awoke.
If it wasn’t for this fate twist, India would not win the first individual gold medal Paralympics in 1972.
“Destiny is always cruel and good to me,” said 73 years based on punch from video calls from the living room – Medal Museum and the Inspiring Cup Young customers in the building in Khadki.
Even when he watched Tokyo Paralympics with a pair of sharp eyes, one of them was not his, the winner of Shri Padma had reviewed his journey for international TV channels, his crutches on his side.
Petkar was a star army boxer nicknamed Chotu Tiger when he visited Kashmir in 1965.
There, many of which took the long lament of sirens which signaled an attack that was not upfront by the Pakistani Air Force to become a whistling call from night chaos, died while waiting for tea.
A soldier’s jeep ran past Petkar’s feet after he was thrown with the impact of the bullet that hit the calf and his thighs and kissed the cheekbones and the right skull.
“There are still bullets who nest in their backbone,” reminded Petkar Arjun’s son, an employee of a weapon factory that made a bullet to make a living.
One of the six children inhabited from a poor freedom fighter father from the Sangli wrestling belt, Mimes Petkar stirred a large qualit while remembering the fresh thandai prepared in a local Akhada in his village, Islam.
The drink had filled his thin body even when he practiced there under the local wrestler Ganpat Khedkar.
Petkar slapped his right arm to show a signal movement that had caused a massive roar during a famous battle in which the 12-year-old player was against the village head’s son near the village for RS gift 5.
“Usually, the prize is Batashas and coconut.
But the stakes This match is in such a way that the villagers threw a lot of coins on the fabric, “he recalled.
The knife appeared after Petkar won a match that was interpreted by the crowd from the chanderi which was interpreted as an intentional insult for their village.
Khedkar escaped from the scene after handing cash in Petkar’s pocket and knocked it up with the truck that took him to Pune.
A week later, Petkar found himself on the train to Bangalore as soon as his uncle based on Pune took him to the local military recruitment center.
At the Army Institute, Petkar trained hard and got up quickly in hockey.
“But I was not selected for the Karnataka team when I was a maratha boy,” Remember Petar Bitter, who then swore a hockey and turned to the boxing.
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