How you recover from the challenges that life throws at you truly defines you. Anjali Shinde is a fighter who has literally changed the way we look at the physically challenged in sports. This award-winning gymnast from Mumbai is also a Malkambh winner at local and national levels. She met with an unfortunate accident 12 where she fell from a rope while practising gymnastics. Though paralysed from waist downwards, she did not let the injury keep her down. At 45, she picked up archery and won a Gold in the 50+50 Meter Compound Round (Women – W1 category) in the National Para-Archery Championship in Rohtak, India, 2019. She has inspired many and now a known Marathi director wants to make a film on her life.

Anjali speaks to The Free Press Journal of her astonishing journey into sports and t

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