The media attention does not bother me. I am very happy that the media is at least interested in sports other than cricket.

We did not had enough facilities in the village. My family was also not well off. There was no mat, no gym; we used to wrestle in the mud. It was very different from the national camps where I trained before the Commonwealth Games.

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.

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