Menu

Post image 1
Post image 2
Post image 3
Post image 4
Post image 5
1 / 5
0

A sweet box maker’s daughter won world gold with a second-hand bow

The Indian Express·Nitin Sharma·20 days ago
#8ZXbxtAa
Reading 0:00
15s threshold

Anil Manohar Mohod makes cardboard boxes for sweet shops in Amravati. It is how the family gets by. Last Sunday, when his 17-year-old daughter Kumkum won the women’s team gold at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Shanghai — India’s first women’s team gold since 2021 — he picked up the phone and called Raghuvir Mithaiyan, one of his clients, to order sweet boxes. Not to deliver them. To receive them. “Sweet boxes banane se hi ghar chalta hai aur Kumkum ki archery bhi (It is the sweet boxes that run our home, and so does Kumkum’s archery),” he told The Indian Express. “She was shooting in Shanghai with a second-hand bow, which she has been using for the last five years. And when she won the team gold, I called Raghuvir Mithaiyan sweets — for whom I once made boxes — to order sweets to celebrate. Kumkum’s passion has been archery and what more can we ask than to see her shining on the world stage.” The bow is five years old. It is the second second-hand bow Kumkum has used since she started the sport in 2018.…

Continue reading — create a free account

Join HashtagPLUS to read full articles, follow hashtags, vote, and join the conversation.

Read More