“What the hell is wrong with this guy?” CS Santosh often looked into the mirror and wondered. He had no broken bones, no visible scars. On the outside, he was a guy who appeared completely normal. Yet he couldn’t sit up without serious effort, couldn’t walk without support and felt inexplicably drowsy most of the time.
In January last year, Santosh, India’s first Dakar Rally rider, suffered a brutal crash. Going at roughly 135 kmph on a gravel track in Stage 4 of the Saudi Arabia Dakar, the 38 year-old Hero MotoCorp rider lost control, hit his head on a rock, fell unconscious, had to be resuscitated and was airlifted to a Riyadh hospital. He suffered brain trauma – Diffuse Axonal Injury – and was placed in a medically-induced coma for close to a fortnight.
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Santosh woke up with double vision, a dislocated left shoulder and no memory of the crash that changed his life. He’s been fighting depression and trying to make sense of who he was and what he’s become.
“I looked at myself…
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