We started the Srikakulam Pada Yatras on 20-NOV-2010.
Our local team hired a 10-seater Scorpio Van and it was packed with 10 people plus driver and a guitar.
We drove from Srikakulam to village: Bhyri Singupuram. We were received by the Sarpanch and about 100 villagers with garlands and fire crackers. Details of this day at another time.
It was a 10-12km drive (I think) and part of it was on a major highway. We missed an exit and had to turn around. We saw the driver struggling to shift the gear. Then we noticed that he had only one hand. That too only the right hand is functional. The left hand needed to shift the gear is fractured and all along he has been using the right hand to shift the gear and steer the vehicle. The internationals were so shocked and concerned and soon forgot about it. We had a very fruitful day as always.
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