This year’s Olympic games were the best ever for India. So used to being the underdog at these competitions, our versatility and accomplishments were often overlooked in favour of other countries with many more medals to their name. However, the athletes of this year have made our country proud. India capped off its best ever performance in the Olympics with 7 medals, including a gold.
The amount of hard work, dedication and perseverance it must have taken to achieve such a feat is absolutely exemplary. After many years, India finally had its first track and field winner, Neeraj Chopra with his magnificent throw of 87.58m. The son of a poor farmer, he had initially taken to the sport to lose weight but fell in love with the art upon seeing the seniors at a stadium practice.
Wrestling has been an old sport in India, but only recently has it been receiving the importance it deserves. Ravi Dahiya of Haryana, a product of India’s Chhatrasal
Stadium gave us the silver medal in the men’s freestyle wrestling category.
Unity and Strength are one of the most culturally important traits of India, and what better display of that than the boys of India making their mark with a bronze medal clenched in hand. Decades of pain and disappointment were washed away when the Men’s Hockey team lifted the bronze medal. Despite it not being a gold, it surely helped to revive the sentiments and emotions the sport holds for the country.
The olympics performance of Lovlina Borgohain in weightlifting was sealed with a Bronze medal, This young champ has a long journey ahead of her.
The two times Asian champion, Bajrang Punia made a remarkable victory when he won a Bronze in the men’s 65 kg wrestling.
The women also performed gloriously with Mirabai Chanu winning a silver in the weightlifting category. Her humble beginnings and high dreams put her at the peak of success. And how can we forget India’s sweetheart, PV Sindhu with her smashing performance in the semi-finals. Her drive to win and sheer force of will was so astounding that her only two losses were felt in the semi-finals of the competition.
Although India won only 7 medals, it has ignited not unlike the Olympic torch, a fire inside all of us, to achieve, dream and inspire.
- Apurva Suman, X
‘Who moved my cheese?’ is a book from the bestselling author Dr Spencer Johnson. This book hardly takes an hour to read but the insights given in this book are really helpful.
This story is about the change that takes place in a Maze when four amusing characters look for “cheese”.
Now this probably seems pretty boring but it’s not. This book explains how everything in life changes and how we should deal with it to enjoy more success.
“Cheese” is a metaphor for what we want to have in life - money, a house, job, freedom etc.
And maze is where we look for our cheese, like the place we work at, where we live,etc.
All of us have our own idea of what cheese is to us. People get out of bed only to chase this cheese that we believe will make us happy. We spend all our time pursuing this cheese in a big confusing maze - our life.
We sometimes forget to enjoy and suffer stress and we often doubt ourselves.
I recommend this book to everyone because it teaches us how to:
1. anticipate change
2. adapt to change quickly
3. enjoy change
4. be ready to change quickly,again and again - because change doesn’t wait for us,it happens unexpectedly and quite often so we should know how to adjust to it.
All in all, this book was very entertaining and enlightening as well.To anyone considering reading this delightful book: you're in for a treat.
- Doli Mittal, IX
