MUMBAI: Female athletes are anyways known to not have things easy in India, but hearing Annu Rani, who scripted history when she became the first Indian female javelin thrower to win a med al (bronze) in the Commonwealth Games at Birmingham recently, narrate her struggles in reaching here, gives you goosebumps.
As she celebrated her 30th birthday at a Athletics Federation of India sponsorship event here on Monday, Rani, in an exclusive conversation with TOI, revealed the tale of how she managed to finally convince her father, Amarpal Singh, a farmer who was extremely reluctant about her becoming a javelin thrower, while she was growing up in Meerut's Bahadurpur village.
