Budhia Singh – feasting on a child ‘prodigy’! [Image source]
Remember Budhia Singh, the small boy just 4 years old last year, whose long-distance running, egged on by full-bodied airhead CRPF jawans, created furor in the media? Well, he is going to run again, sorry walk, and this time it’s all of 500 km.
He’ll start on June 6 from Bhubaneswar and complete the distance to Kolkata in 10 days (refer The China Post news). Last year, he ran 65 km solo marathon apparently to create some record when he was stopped. Had he run another 5 km, he’d probably have created the record his ‘coach’ Biranchi Das wanted him to achieve.
Budhia is an undernourished child whose father died when he was 7 months old and whose mother wanted to sell him off for Rs.800 out of extreme poverty.
Biranchi Das raised the child after Budhia’s mother chanced upon him 2 years back. Is the man trying to plough back his investment he made on the child? Little doubt he is, though he denies that.
Whether Budhia walks 500 km or not on June 6, only the future will say. But his is not an only example. Here is a poignant story of a Chinese fish-farmer who dreams to see her 8-year old daughter run marathon in the 2016 Olympics.
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