Kshamta Bajpai joined the Indian National Cadet Corps (NCC), a volunteer paramilitary group offering skills training without the obligation for full-time military service. She started in the Army Wing, but switched to the Air Wing when she was denied the opportunity to take a coveted mountaineering training course. Bajpai began para-sailing and gliding, getting winched up, controlling the angles as she descended to the fields without an engine, treasuring each opportunity "to feel the air," she says.
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