Wheelchair-bound Maithili joins sea of cricket lovers at parade to celebrate Rohit, Virat, Bumrah and Co
With cricket stadia in India being largely inaccessible to wheelchair-bound people, 27-year-old Maithili Gaikwad knew that the one time she could fulfill her dream of seeing Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and the other Indian cricket stars up close would be during the T20 World Cup bus parade at Marine Drive on Thursday.Maithili suffers from Spina Bifida, a condition where the spinal cord does not develop properly in the womb. She does not have any sensation from waist down and had to depend on her colleagues — she’s an HR at Tata Power — to bring her to the Marine Drive promenade.
With the roads being cordoned off because of the parade, Maithili and her colleagues just couldn’t arrange transport to get to Marine Drive. She remained undeterred though. Having faced countless obstacles all th...