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The Shanti Effect is inspiring to watch
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Shanti Pereira, the 200m champion at the Asian Games, has become an inspiration for Singaporeans, old and young.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
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The eyes told a terrific tale. It was May 9 at The Straits Times newsroom and a colleague walked down a corridor. Journalists, if you’ve read enough overwrought novels, are cynical, hard-boiled, seen-everything, blase folk. But this journalist’s eyes widened because she had seen someone.
Think of it as surprise, awe, wonder, delight.
