‘Lionhearted’ girl bikes dad across India, inspiring a nation

She was a 15-year-old with a simple mission: bring papa home. Jyoti Kumari and her dad had nearly no money, no transport, and their village was halfway across India. And her dad, an out-of-work migrant labourer, was injured and could barely walk. So Jyoti told her dad: Let me take you home. He thought the idea was crazy but went along with it. She then jumped on a $20 purple bike bought with the last of their savings. With her dad perched on the rear, she pedalled from the outskirts of New Delhi to their home village, 700 miles away. "Don’t worry, mummy,” she reassured her mother along the way, using borrowed cellphones. “I will get Papa home good.”

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