When 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari pedaled 700 miles home with her ailing father, she gained worldwide attention — and a movie deal. But critics say that attention is romanticizing poverty. 'Are we thinking about why Jyoti had to make that journey at all?'
Jyoti Kumari, 15, pedaled more than 700 miles with her father seated behind her on a $20 bicycle to bring him from New Delhi, where he'd been injured, to the family's village.Jyoti Kumari, 15, pedaled more than 700 miles with her father seated behind her on a $20 bicycle to bring him from New Delhi, where he'd been injured, to the family's village.
It also launched a debate about whether the real story is the fact that the teenager felt she had no other way to get her father to safety. But after the accident, Paswan couldn't drive. He needed care. So Kumari hopped on a cross-country train and moved in with her father to nurse him back to health.in India, out of a population of nearly 1.4 billion. But a nationwide lockdown — the biggest in the world — meant that Paswan, even as he healed from his injuries, couldn't get back on the road.
"I said, 'How could we possibly go that far — the two of us on one bicycle?'"Paswan told NPR in a phone interview."But she convinced me. If we stayed, we would have starved to death. We had to at least try."
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