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Wednesday, March 29 2023

Rani Rampal: From battling poverty to leading the Indian women’s hockey team to script history

by Global Indian | Aug 3, 2021

(August 3, 2021; 5.45 pm) In April this year, when the Indian women’s hockey team was training hard for their Olympics outing, disaster struck: six of the team members had tested positive for COVID-19 and were forced to go into isolation for two weeks. One of the six...

Lovlina Borgohain: The paddy farmer-turned-boxer who’s now an Olympic medalist

by Global Indian | Jul 30, 2021

(July 30, 2021; 5.30 pm) 2020 was a tough year for Lovlina Borgohain: First she couldn’t make it to the national camp due to her mother’s ill health and also had to help her father in the paddy fields. Secondly, she tested Covid positive hours before she was to board...