Parupalli kashyap born in ‘Guntur’ to ‘Uday Shankar’ and ‘ Subhadra’. He was only 11 when he was enroll in a traning camp conducted by Dronacharya awardee ‘SM Arif’. From there on, there was no looking back for kashyap. As a youngster badminton was just a recreational sport for him untill he realised about his tallent. After moving to Bengaluru he started his training at the Prakash Padukon Academy, where he worked on his game for around 3 years.

He married his fellow player ‘Saina Nehwal’ India’s one of the best badminton player. Currently he is coaching his wife and looking forward to being a full time coach once he hangs his racket.

However, after losing in the quaterfinals at London 2012, kashyap hopes for an olympic medal were once again shattered at Rio 2016 after he had to go under knife for knee surgery ahead of the event and was not able to participate. Despite all the stuggles with injuries during his career, it is thanks to his willpower that kashyap has always made a strong comeback.

When it comes to Women’s World Boxing, there is perhaps no bigger name then MC Marry Kom. The Indian pugilist added another cap to her career when she defeated Comlombia’s ‘Valencia Victoria’ via unanimous 5-0 verdict to reach the semifinal at World Boxing Championships. Doing so the Manipuri boxer also secured an unpreandented eight world medal, thus improving her own record as the most successful boxer in the history of tournament.

There are achivers and there are fighters and Marry Kom is both. From a amateur boxer who began her career in 2000 to a six-time world record holder, Marry Kom’s fascinating journey has lessons for all. Marry, today a mother of three sons, believes that in the middle of every difficulty lies oppurtunity..

Nicknamed ‘Dhing Express’, Hima Das is a 19-year-old Indian sprinter from the state of Assam. She became the first Indian woman — indeed the first ever Indian athlete — to win a gold medal in any format of a global track event at IAAF World U20 Championships when she clocked a speed of 51.46 seconds. Born on January 9, 2000, to rice farmers in Dhing village of Assam’s Nagaon district, Das won five back-to-back gold medals in about a month in Czech Republic in July 2019.

Hima Das was interested in sports since childhood. She regularly played football with local boys in mud pits next to her parents’ rice fields and was convinced to take up professional athletics by a coach.

Das passed her 12th examination from Assam Higher Secondary Education Council in May 2019. Recently, the Bannerghatta Biological Park named a tigress cub as ‘Hima’ to honour Indian athlete Hima Das.