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At 90, Mumbai's Mary D'souza Sequeira narrates the enthralling tale of how she scripted her own destiny through hard work and became one of India's first female Olympians at the 1952 Olympics.

Did you know that Shahaji II, the Maharaja of Kolhapur, sponsored a 22-year-old wrestler from Satara for the 1948 London Olympics? Or that Chatrapati Shahu Maharaj built hundreds of akharas to create a city that produced legendary wrestlers?

At a time when the rest of the world believed that Indian women rarely ventured outside their kitchens, 19-year-old Arati Saha overcame obstacles, both physical and mental, to carve her way to success.