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Women’s Day: Let’s celebrate our sports achievers

A girl with the dream becomes a woman with the vision.

SNS | March 8, 2018 5:01 pm

Women’s Day: Let’s celebrate our sports achievers

Every single girl should be a dreamer before anything else because a girl with a dream becomes a woman with the vision.

Not long ago when people used to see a woman opting for sports as a career, they used to question her choice. Well, even today, a girl who chooses sports over education is questioned, but now there are people who encourage and support her.

I remember some of the comments made by my neighbours when I used to play cricket along with my male friends in my childhood. “Itani badi ho gayi hai sharam ni aati ladko ke saath cricket khelte hue? Unka (ladko) kya vo to jo chahe kr lange? kal ko tumhari shaadi hogi to kaya sasural me jake bhi cricket khelogi?” And the list of comments goes on and on.

I had to hear those remarks when I was playing cricket just for fun. That’s why sometimes I wonder what Mithali Raj had to face to become the most celebrated Indian cricketer. What would people have thought of Saina Nehwal, when she decided to go for badminton. What Dipa Karmakar had to face to become a gymnast and how much struggle MC Mary Kom had gone through before becoming the five-time world champion in boxing.

What have Jhulan Goswami, PV Sindhu, Aditi Ashok, Manu Bhaker, Ekta Bisht, Harmanpreet Kaur, Sakshi Malik, Sania Mirza, PT Usha, Anjali Bhagwat, Karnam Malleswari, Geeta Phogat, Anjum Chopra, Heena Sindhu and many more gone through before creating history by changing the landscape of sports in India?

This Women’s Day, let’s celebrate our women players who have inspired us to go after our dreams by showing that it is possible!