Asian Para Games

When Himanshi Rathi lost her vision in Class 12, she could’ve stepped back. Instead, she turned to chess — mastering the game she once struggled to imagine, and becoming India’s first woman to win a medal at the Asian Para Games.

Mohammad Shams Alam Shaikh from Gurugram is an international level swimmer who has been competing in para-sports since 2012. He recently won three medals in the 20th National Para-Swimming Championship.

The para-athlete who was felicitated at a Delhi stadium on Monday revealed how he is still unemployed and is helping his mother run a paan/gutkha shop.