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Watch: A welder’s son from Mumbai leaps into top ballet school

15-year-old Amiruddin Shah has been accepted into the American Ballet Theatre in New York City.

Scroll Staff & Reuters
Jul 10, 2017 · 02:00 pm
Image credit: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
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