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    Nightly midnight jog by Indian teen inspires millions on Twitter

    19-year-old Pradeep Mehra works 1 p.m. to 11 p.m., then runs home to keep in shape for his goal: joining India's highly selective army. A video of his nightly jog has become a Twitter sensation.
    by Kamala Thiagarajan Mar 28, 2022 5 minutes
    19-year-old Pradeep Mehra on his 5-mile run home after his shift ends at McDonald's. A chance encounter with a filmmaker led to a video that's gone viral.

    At 11:45 p.m. on March 19, Vinod Kapri, a former TV journalist and award-winning filmmaker, was returning home from a dinner. As he was cruising along Golf Course Road in the northern Indian city of Noida, near New Delhi, he spotted a kid racing along in the dead of the night.

    Kapri says he was alarmed at first — worried that the boy was in trouble. And so he slowed down and cranked open a window.

    "Do you need help?" he asked.

    "I thought he was a 14-year-old because he looked much younger than he was and he had a backpack on," Kapri tells NPR. "It was late and he was running so fast. I was concerned and wondered if he might be in trouble. Where could he be running off to in such a tearing hurry in the dead of the night?"

    The boy turned out to be 19-year-old Pradeep Mehra, who had

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