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From fame to oblivion, the story of marathon runner Budhia Singh
In 2006, at the age of four, Budhia Singh ran a gruelling 65 km distance between Puri and Bhubaneswar in a little over seven hours. He became an instant sporting phenomenon in India as people began talking about the prospect of him bringing home a medal in global sporting events.
Many even said that was the next Milkha Singh.
Fifteen years later, as India gears up for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics with talk about Odisha-born sprinter Dutee Chand’s medal prospects, Budhia Singh is long forgotten in mainstream discourse.
In the Bharatpur slums of Bhubaneswar, where his widowed mother Sukanti and two sisters live in a cramped one-room tenement, no one has seen Budhia run in the last few years.
Any enquiries about the marathon prospect are met with a dismissive nod from neighbours, while his own family would rather talk about how everyone, including the state government, “cheated” him for their own gains instead of fo