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India’s Rajalakshmi wins ‘Popularity Award’ at first Miss Wheelchair World

By: Eastern Eye Staff

Breaking barriers, India’s Rajalakshmi on Monday won the ‘Miss Popularity award’ at Miss Wheelchair World 2017 pageant in Poland’s Warsaw.This is three years after she won Miss Wheelchair India in 2014. Rajalakshmi, who hails from Bengaluru, is a dentist by profession. She was forced to take the wheelchair after she met with a road accident 10 years back. The road accident led to a spinal cord injury forcing her wheelchair-bound for life and moulding her life in a different direction. Instead of losing herself, she pursued her interests in psychology and fashion and eventually she won 2014 Miss Wheelchair India.…

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