The Andhra trio of K. Rajitha (400m gold), S. Pallavi (64 kg weightlifting gold), and M. Sireesha (400m bronze) that won medals in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games in Panchkula (Haryana) has defied extreme hardship and financial constraints to make it thus far.
Rajitha, belonging to the Koya tribe, lost her father at a young age and her mother Bhadramma, a labourer, had to take care of five children in the village of Ramachandrapuram in East Godavari (AP). “It was a daily fight, to survive. But my mother, like a true warrior, never gave up,” said Rajitha.
