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Ep #113 Naina Adhikari: The Woman Changing What’s Possible on the Ganga

What does it take to keep going when everything around you — the sport, the culture, the system — says this isn’t your place? At the age of 13, Naina Adhikari made her way to the Ganga River, 300 km from her home village to start learning how to whitewater kayak. She couldn’t swim, and

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India Didn’t Give Me a Map. It Gave Me Permission to Trust the One I Already Had.

Dusk was setting in. I’d turned my boat around to back-paddle upstream, giving my forward stroke muscles a rest, when something enormous coasted across the river from left to right. It moved so slowly, so strangely, that my brain genuinely couldn’t process it. I actually cried out: “What the heck is that?!” It landed on

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