Rediff.com columnist MP Anil Kumar honoured on R-Day

January 30, 2012 12:49

Rediff.com columnist MP Anil Kumar was a dashing MiG-21 pilot in the Indian Air Force when a road accident left him paralysed below the neck. He was just 24.

For the past 19 years he has lived in the military's Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre in Pune and has become an inspiration to many in the manner in which he has picked up the threads of his life. Today Anil Kumar uses a keyboard with his mouth and is a gifted writer whose byline rediff.com readers will instantly recognise. An article he wrote about his disability was so inspirational that it found its way in school textbooks in Maharashtra. You can read more about him here.

On Republic Day, Anil Kumar was felicitated with the Army Commander's Commendation by Southern Army Commander Lt Gen A K Singh. Read about the felicitation here and here.

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