In this Sion-based Brahmin household of lawyers and chartered accountants, plates can be found not only in the formerly-vegetarian kitchen but also in the formerly-a-garage gym. A set of barbells and powerlifting plates from Kolkata had first parked themselves inside this South Indian family's 150-square-foot garage in 2016 when a weighty responsibility rested on the gym-toned shoulders of the family's curly-haired nerve-centre, Vinutha Raghunath.
The following year, then 48-year-old Vinutha had returned from her self-funded trip to the Commonwealth Games in South Africa armed with not only an international gold for India but also a title that would come to adorn her perennially-under-57-kg frame on several national podiums: 'Best Lifter'.
