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A year started with hope of vaccine which took a devastating turn of coronavirus second wave can be remembered for so many other reasons as well. Year 2021 saw more covid related deaths than 2020 due to surge in Delta variant. India also witnessed farmers’ protest and ‘tractor rally’ amid the 72nd Republic Day celebrations. This is the same year when Neeraj Chopra made history by winning India’s first-ever gold medal in athletics at the Tokyo Olympics. Let us take a flashback of year 2021 through these defining images:
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Farmers shower flower petals on fellow farmers riding on their tractors after breaking the police barricades at Singhu border during the ‘Kisan Gantantra Parade’ on Republic Day, in New Delhi on January 26, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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Mass cremation of Covid-19 victims and others takes place at Gazipur Crematorium, in New Delhi on April 26, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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India’s Neeraj Chopra reacts as he competes in the final of the men’s javelin throw event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo on August 7, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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A aerial view of Tapovan barrage two days after a glacier broke off in Joshimath causing a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river, in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on February 9, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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Farmers hoist flags at the Red Fort during the ‘tractor rally’ amid the 72nd Republic Day celebrations, in New Delhi on January 26, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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A man carries a child as people who were stranded in crisis-hit Afghanistan arrive by a special repatriation flight of IAF at the Hindan Air Force Station, in Ghaziabad on August 22, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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A family member of a victim reacts after a fire at a Covid-19 hospital where at least 13 people died, in Virar on April 23, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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Indian players celebrate their victory against Australia during women’s field hockey quarterfinal match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo on August 2, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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A health worker inoculates an old woman with Covishield vaccine during a door-to-door vaccination drive, at Chitnan village at Vatora Island in Howrah on June 29, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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Jailed Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal prepares for the last rites of her father Mahavir Narwal, who died of COVID-19, in Rohtak, Tuesday on May 11, 2021. Natasha, jailed in connection with Delhi riots case, was given interim bail by the Delhi High Court to attend his father’s cremation. (PTI Photo)
