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Sheetal Devi on Wednesday gave the students of Velammal Vidyalaya in Chennai’s Vanagaram a glimpse of what she did at the Esplanade des Invalides in the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Sheetal, who clinched the bronze medal alongside Rakesh Kumar in the open mixed team compound event at the Summer Games, was the guest of honour alongside…
The Sheetal Devi story is one of two journeys, two people, and two destinies. On one side, there is a little girl born with phocomelia, a rare congenital condition due to which one’s limbs are underdeveloped or absent, thereby limiting, to a great extent, the ‘normalcy’ her life would allow. On the other, there is…
A defining moment of Indian sports in 2023 was the sight of armless archer Sheetal Devi effortlessly winning medals for fun at the Para Asian Games in Hangzhou. In addition to winning an Arjuna Award, along with countless other adulations, the 17-year-old’s heroics have also brought the limelight onto another entity — the Shri Mata…
