{"id":40658,"date":"2021-08-20T23:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T23:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40658"},"modified":"2021-08-20T23:41:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T23:41:43","slug":"i-play-carrom-with-my-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40658","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I play carrom with my feet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Harshad Gothankar shot to social media fame recently when cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar tweeted a video of the young man playing carrom with his feet, calling it inspirational. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Carrom is a hugely popular board game played in South Asia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The 23-year-old was born without arms, but he says his father never let him feel he was different from other children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Instead, he encouraged him to do everything &#8211; how to write, how to use a computer, how to work out in a gym &#8211; so Harshad could live an independent life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">So now Harshad can do just about anything &#8211; with his feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Video by BBC Marathi&#8217;s Arvind Parekar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-58265853\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harshad Gothankar shot to social media fame recently when cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar tweeted a video of the young man playing carrom with his feet, calling it inspirational. Carrom is a hugely popular board game played in South Asia. The 23-year-old was born without arms, but he says his father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120024995_p09sjdrw.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}