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Tribune Information Service
Sonepat, August 3
Nisha Warsi (26), a member of the Indian ladies’s hockey workforce, lives in a 25 sq m home in West Ram Nagar colony within the metropolis together with her household.
She has not solely introduced a change within the mindset of her mother and father but in addition received laurels for the complete nation after the workforce’s sterling efficiency within the Tokyo Olympics.
Sohrab Ahmad, father of Nisha, instructed The Tribune that she was his third daughter.
We couldn’t afford her expenditure on sports activities, however her ardour for video games and help of our kin and her coach helped her obtain the objective, he mentioned.
A tailor by occupation and dwelling in a rented lodging, he was the one bread-earner of their household until 2016, when he had a paralytic stroke, making him give up his work.
Her mom, Mahroon, labored in a foam-manufacturing manufacturing facility for a couple of years earlier than Nisha landed a job with the Railways. We bought a 25 sq m home in the identical neighborhood after she acquired a job within the Railways, mentioned her father. “Now, Nisha is the one bread-earner for our household,” he added.
“Nisha and Neha Goyal (one other hockey participant) have been finding out in the identical faculty. Nisha began taking part in on the age of 9,” he mentioned. She went to play on the academy of Pritam Siwach within the industrial space.
Sohrab mentioned, “I used to be considering that she is a lady and what’s going to she do by taking part in video games. However I used to be unsuitable and my daughter has modified my mindset.”
Choice within the Indian hockey workforce and to qualify for the Olympics was her dream and she or he fulfilled this together with her arduous work. Not solely the relations however all Indians are feeling proud immediately.
At one level, Nisha was about to give up the sport as her household was forcing her to get married after she joined the Railways, however she wished to play extra for India, mentioned Pritam Rani Siwach, who nurtured the hockey participant in her academy.
“I known as her mother and father to the bottom and satisfied them to permit her to play and fulfil her goals,” mentioned Siwach.
It was a really huge achievement for our hockey workforce through which three gamers — Neha Goyal, Nisha Warsi and Sharmila — have been from our academy, she added.
