Sports

Shivani and Deepthi Pruthvi, mother and daughter from Karnataka, are professional rally racers and practising doctors, who drove in the First All-Women Racing Team in India.

The exemplary stories of these young women are testimony to the invisible battles won with sheer determination and courage.

How Recognize Rise and Empower Association (RREA), a non-profit in Manipur, delivers quality education and is ending clash of the clans through sports. Their Sports for Social Development programme in Kamjong district is significantly improving students' attendance, too.

Delhi-based Rishitaa Jain is a powerlifter who began her training in 2017 under Javed Mehta. She won four gold medals at the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championship held in Canada.

Sanjay Pathak, a government school teacher from Laxmipur village in Bihar, runs the Rani Laxmibai Sports Academy, where he currently trains around 55 young girls from his village. All free of cost

Delhi’s Karan Singh has used his six years of experience in training with international coaches in the US to scout for local talent from tribal areas of Jharkhand. Through the Indian Track Foundation, he is training these children to become middle and long-distance runners and win medals for India in the 2028 LA Olympics, and beyond.

The daughter of tea garden labourers, West Bengal's 20-year-old Sandhya Rai fought massive challenges and extreme sexism to become the ‘unstoppable' player she is today

Actor Praveen Kumar Sobti effortlessly aced the role of Bheema in the serial 'Mahabharat'. But he does have many other laurels to his name.

More than anything else, what many Indian fans remember is the joy he gave them. As Maradona once said, "When you're on the field, life goes away, the problems go away, everything goes away!”

Indian football legend IM Vijayan took to Twitter to pay his tribute to 'Hand of God' Diego Maradona, who has passed away at the age of 60. Watch the video of the iconic moment when the two shared a stage!