The word "Paralympic" derives from the Greek preposition "para" (beside or alongside) and the word "Olympic". Its meaning is that Paralympics are the parallel Games to the Olympics and illustrates how the two movements exist side-by-side (https://www.paralympic.org). The Paralympic Games is a major international multi sports event involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. The first Paralympic Games took place in Rome, Italy in 1960 featuring 400 athletes from 23 countries. Since then they have taken place every four years. As of 2016 summer Paralympic games was included 22 sports and 526 medal events. The IPC has established ten disability categories, including physical, visual, and intellectual impairment. Last Paralympic was held in Rio de Janeiro and upcoming Paralympic games will be held in Tokyo. At 2016 Paralympic India got two gold medals one silver and one bronze medal and squared 43rd rank. In the Present study it was attempted to find out several directions of Paralympic games, its origination and history of development, relationship with Olympic games, several events included according to the degree and types of disability, different group division of Paralympic games, geography of Paralympic games hosted, medal statistics of India in Paralympic games from 1960 to 2016 and the list of the players who had participated in Paralympic and Olympic games simultaneously etc. For that purpose it was reviewed from the origination of this game up to the present status where the tremendous popularity of the games reached in every corner of the globe. The information were collected from various resources and reviewed thoroughly and presented in the present paper.