Autistic teen swims 21 km at Odisha’s Chilika Lake in 3 hours and 57 minutes.
Jiya Rai, a 14-year-old para-swimmer, the daughter of a senior sailor of the Indian navy, Madan Rai, MC-AT-ARMS II of INS Kunjali, is popularly deemed as the ‘Jal Pari’ of India. She is a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder and took on the mammoth task of swimming through the Chilika lake in Odisha, a brackish […]
