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Started @AdaptedSportsIn | #ASIChats | తెలుగు | Loves languages♥️ABBA♥️ | Disability & Safe Sport Researcher 🇮🇳 PhD (USA) | Sports4All
Nov 8, 2022 25 tweets 14 min read
THREAD on what goes unreported about #DisabilitySport (here #WCBB) from developing countries like India. I woke up to an American colleague's exciting tweet about conducting research at this 'international inaugural event' and the #ScholarActivist in me cannot keep quiet. 1/ @_IWBF and @ICRC_nd including @Paralympics have for years noted that inside India, the #SportGovernance of #WCBB is a crumbling structure with no real grassroots development happening in true sense. Several complaints have been brought to their notice 2/
Aug 19, 2020 40 tweets 15 min read
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Last year 19, September, @BAI_Media 's response to my questions about who Gaurav Khanna is gets this reply. So here is a thread about what I know about this man and the Indian Para Badminton scene. Also a byproduct of #AdaptedSportsIndia work 2/
Look at @BAI_Media's Para badminton section - shorturl.at/cuKMQ
No mention of a national coach anywhere.
Look at @ParalympicIndia 's website section for para badminton -
shorturl.at/arCV3
No mention of a national coach anywhere.