Commonwealth games

Despite three severe injuries to the same knee and a bout of COVID-19, Delhi-based boxer Rohit Tokas showed incredible resilience and mental fortitude to win the bronze medal in the men’s 67 kg category at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Assuring a medal for India at the Commonwealth Games 2022, boxer Nikhat Zareen overcame some incredible odds to become world champion.

One of India’s finest judokas and a silver medallist at Commonwealth Games 2022, Manipur's Shushila Devi Likmabam has come a long way from battling depression and selling her car to fund her career.

Achinta Sheuli created a Commonwealth Games record and won India's third gold medal. But the path that led him here has been one filled with challenges for this 20-year-old.

Pritam Rani Siwach, former captain of the Indian women’s hockey team, started an academy for underprivileged girls in Sonepat, Haryana. Her academy has produced Olympians like Neha Goyal, Nisha Warsi and Sharmila Devi, and given hundreds of others an education and a secure livelihood.

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

A series of unforeseen circumstances forced a teenage Amarjit Maibam to take up work as a bus conductor on the route from Imphal to Moreh. But that was not the direction he meant to take.

A week after the birth of her child, hockey legend Pritam Rani Siwach didn’t know whether she would ever play for India. Three years later, she won the Commonwealth Games gold! #WomenInSports #RealLifeHeroine

It’s not just her victories that are inspiring, but the journey to get here is equally worthy of a mention. Sindhu travelled for almost 56 km every morning to get to Pullela Gopichand’s Academy, where she would train for four hours each day.

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu was only 11 when she won her first-ever competitive gold medal.