Ah, Neha Bora. My grandson sent a video of her weightlifting—he watches these things on the little phone. I watched it twice, sitting on my veranda, and thought of our village akhara behind the old school. The bamboo poles are still there, but the children now say they want to be 'influencers', not wrestlers. This girl, she lifts like she is proving something to the district officers who never come to see our broken stadium. The government papers say Haryana spends crores on sports nurseries, but I wonder, do they count the children who walk two hours to a pit with no mat? My father used to say, 'Strength is useless without a fair ground to stand on.' I hope she gets hers.
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