Story of a Champion
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Boxer M. C. Mary Kom captured India’s imagination when she won bronze at the London Olympics. An article depicting how truly inspirational the five- time world champion is exploded on social networks. Written by journalist Rahul Bhattacharya for Intelligent Life, the arts and culture magazine of The Economist, the piece ‘ India’s Shot at Gold’ spoke of how the daughter of landless agricultural labourers finally made it.