PANAJI, Dec 3: Triumphing against all odds, TV actor and writer Salil Chaturvedi, who is paralysed below the waist, led a four-member sailing expedition from Mumbai to Goa in a campaign for equal access for the disabled. The Godrej Brighter Horizons expedition arrived here Wednesday on the eve of the World Disability Day. The expedition that covered a distance of some 240 nautical miles was flagged off from Mumbai on Nov 24 by Adi Godrej, the chairman of the Godrej group.
Chaturvedi — who currently acts in, and writes scripts for the Indian version of “Sesame Street” “Galli Galli Sim Sim” — was accompanied by a crew of three that included his wife Monika Kshatriya, as also Umaji Chowgule and Shaunik Chaturvedi. They sailed in the Bombay Harbour Seabird, a 21-ft sloop. Designed in 1920 by Derrick Morgan Giles, an English naval architect, the boat had no modern amenities, apart from a motor, in case of emergencies.
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