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Why social media abuzzwith PM presiding UNSC

Deepika Padukone reportedly outof 'Baiju Bawra' for demandingequal pay as Ranveer Singh

If reports are to go by, actress DeepikaPadukone is now out from

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 'Baiju Bawra' film, as shedemanded the same fees as her husbandRanveer Singh. A champion for pay parityamong actors and actresses, Deepika has been

demanding and getting as much her leading menin her recent films. But, this time in ‘BaijuBawra’, Bhansali has regretfully turned down

her request for pay parity”...

1Recently, Taapsee Pannu had spoken about pay disparitybetween male and female

actors. She said that female actorswho ask for more money are seen as‘difficult’, while if a male actor hikes hisfee, it is considered a sign of success

2Earlier, actresses such as Priyanka Chopra,Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor

have spoken openly about pay disparity

3The same story goes withHollywood. In Hollywood,female stars are paid 56% less

than their male counterparts — theequivalent of $2.2m less per film

When ISS astronautsenjoyed space Olympics

Bottled water up to3,500 times worse forenvironment: Study

PAK WORRIED?Pakistan's envoy to the UN Munir Akram said, they will be"watchful" during New Delhi's spell at the forum. “We hopethat India will abide by the relevant rules and norms governingthe conduct of the Security Council Presidency," he added

INDIA @ UNSC

1This is India's first presidency inthe UNSC during its 2021-22 tenureas a non-permanent member of the

UNSC. The two-year tenure of India as anon-permanent member of the UNSCbegan on January 1, 2021

2 India has been campaigning for apermanent seat at the UNSC alongwith Germany, Japan and Brazil for

many years

3While the US, France, Britain andRussia are not averse to India join-ing the UNSC as a permanent mem-

ber, China has been opposing it. This isseen as due to Beijing’s close ties withIndia’s arch rival Pakistan

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Interestingly, pay disparity amonggender is a common feature in everysector Globally, the gender pay gapstands at 16 per cent, meaningwomen workers earn an average of84 per cent of what men earn. Forwomen of colour, immigrantwomen, and women with children,the difference is even greater.

QTime to talk about payparity and make it a

reality in every sector?Please share your views at

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From synchronised space swimming to 'lack of floor routine'gymnastics, astronauts at the International Space Station(ISS) enjoyed their own Olympics games in zero gravity beforeholding a

'closing ceremony' tobid goodbye to Tokyo2020. French astro-naut Thomas Pesquetof the EuropeanSpace Agency (ESA)posted a series ofvideos on Twitter overthe weekend, showingsome of the ISS astro-nauts performing their favourite games sans gravity. They also had a'weightless' sharpshooting session where they shoot what look like rub-ber bands at a makeshift target. During the synchronised space swim-ming, the astronauts worked hard on the routines despite the lack ofwater. "Synchronised space swimming, an opportunity to show teamworkand crew cohesion," Pesquet posted. "No-handball, we had to adapt therules a bit during the match, much investment on both sides for the win,"he added. The astronauts even hung little flags of all the countries repre-sented over their performance zones on the space station.

They also held a closing ceremony where Aki Hoshide ofJAXA (Japan's space agency) handed an Olympic flag toPesquet, as Olympics 2024 is slated to happen in Paris

The president of IOC, Thomas Bach, declared the 32ndOlympic Games closed on Sunday, as the Olympic flag washanded over to France, the host of the 2024 Paris Games

T he environmental impact of bottled water is up to 3,500 times higher than tap water, according to anew study. The consumption of bottled water has

been increasing sharply in recent years on a global scale, dueto the perceived presence of chemical compounds in tap water.

The results showed that if the whole population of a city likeBarcelona decided to shift to bottled water, the productionrequired would take a toll of 1.43 species lost per year and cost$83.9 million per year due to extraction of raw materialsThis is approximately 1,400 times more impact inecosystems and 3,500 times higher cost ofresource extraction compared to the sce-nario where the whole population wouldshift to tap water, the researchers said

Environment

MHA tells states to stop usageof Tricolour made of plastic

A head of theIndependenceDay celebration,

the Centre has askedstates to ensure thatpeople don’t use plasticnational flags, as ensur-ing appropriate disposalof the Tricolour made ofnon-biodegradable itemsis a practical problem.

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Since, plastic flags are not biodegradablelike paper flags, these do not get decom-posed for a long time and ensuring appropri-ate disposal of national flags made of plasticcommensurate with the dignity of the flag isa practical problem, it said Such flags areto be disposed in private, consistent with thedignity of the flag, it added

‘The Prevention of Insults to NationalHonour Act, 1971’ and the ‘Flag Code of India,2002’ govern the display of national flag

KARNATAKA KHADIGRAMODYOGA

SAMYUKTA SANGHA(KKGSS)

T he Indian flag ismanufactured andsupplied from only

one place in the country—the Karnataka KhadiGramodyoga SamyuktaSangha (KKGSS). Located inDharwad, Karnataka, it hasthe authority to manufac-ture and supply the Indianflag. According to theBureau of Indian Standards,the national flag is manu-factured only with hand-spun and handwoven cottonkhadi bunting

FOR THE RECORDModi would be the first-ever Indian PM to chairan open debate at thecouncil but that is notto be confused withbeing the UNSC president

WHATPM Narendra Modi

chaired a high-level opendebate at the United

Nations Security Council (UNSC) on enhancingmaritime security on Monday. India took overthe presidency of the Security Council recent-ly with a pledge to work for entire humanitywhile bringing a focus to the challenges ofterrorism.

WHYIS IT SIGNIFICANT: As partof its new role as president ofthe UNSC that all 15 members

get in rotation, India will decide the agenda ofthe UN’s highest decision making body whoseresolutions and directives are binding on all themember states. India will also coordinate impor-tant meetings on a range of issues duringAugust. India will organise meetings focused onkey areas of maritime security, peacekeepingand counter-terrorism.

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CHILE'S ANCIENT MUMMIES1. Chile's Chinchorro mummies are the oldest in the world

to have been purposefully preserved by humans.

2. The mummies, which were found in the north of Chile atthe start of the 20th century, are more than 7,000 years old, mean-ing they pre-date the Egyptian mummies by two millennia.

3. The Chinchorro were fishers and hunter gatherers morethan 7,000 years ago in an area where the desert and Pacific Oceanmeet in what is today the south of Peru and north of Chile.

4. So far, more than 300 mummies have been found, includ-ing red, black and bandaged ones.

5. The mummification process consisted of removing the or-gans, intestines and tissue. The skin was then ripped off thecorpse and the body rebuilt using sticks and animal hair, whilea thick head of black hair was sewn onto the scalp.

6. Finally the mummies were painted red or black using earth,pigments, manganese and iron oxide.

Why the Chichorro culture mummified their deadremains a mystery.

In 2005, Arriaza developed a theory that it could have beenlinked to high levels of arsenic poisoning in the water that couldhave produced premature births, miscarriages, underweight chil-dren and high infant mortality.

Experts suggested the mummification was "an emotional re-sponse from parents faced with these painful losses, so they paint-ed them, dressed them up and every day this technique becamemore elaborate."

Recently, new siteswere given the

heritage tag byUNESCO. Explore

with TIMES NIEsignificance of

each place

1 Following the decision by its World HeritageCommittee, UNESCO in a statement called Nice,

famous for its mild climate, the "Winter resort town of theRiviera".

2 The city joins France's more than 40 world heritagesites including the banks of the river Seine in Paris,

the Amiens cathedral, the Mont Saint Michel and stretchesof the Loire valley.

3UNESCO said that Nice adapted its urban planning asearly as two centuries ago to make itself attractive to

foreigners seeking warmer climes.

4 Their cultural influences and "desire to make themost of the climatic conditions and scenery of the

place, shaped the urban planning and eclectic architecturalstyles of those areas", it said.

5 With close to one million inhabitants, greater Nice is the second-biggest city on the French

Mediterranean coast after Marseille, and the fifth-biggest in France.

6 Nicknamed "Nice the Beautiful", the city attract-ed European aristocracy from the 18th century,

starting with British royalty who had the seafront"Promenade des Anglais" named after them.

7 Painters including Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse alsostayed there, as did writers Anton Chekhov and

Friedrich Nietzsche.

8 "The history of Nice, which is at the same time deeplyrooted and open, Mediterranean and Alpine, European

and cosmopolitan, has produced an architecture that are amodel for many other cities in the world.

FRENCH C ITY OF N ICE

CHILE'S ANCIENT MUM-

1 Chile's Chinchorro mummies are the oldest in the world to have been pur-

posefully preserved by humans.

2 The mummies, which were found in thenorth of Chile at the start of the 20th

century, are more than 7,000 years old,meaning they pre-date the Egyptian mum-mies by two millennia.

3 The Chinchorro were fishers andhunter gatherers more than 7,000

years ago in an area where the desertand Pacific Ocean meet in what is todaythe south of Peru and north of Chile.

4So far, more than 300 mummieshave

been found, including red, black andbandaged ones.

1 Rudreshwara, popularly known asRamappa Temple, is located in

Palampet Village, near Hyderabad,Telangana.

2 It is the main Shiva temple in awalled complex built during the

Kakatiyan period (1123-1323 CE) underrulers Rudradeva and Recharla Rudra.

3 Construction of the sandstone tem-ple began in 1213 CE and is believed

to have continued for over 40 years. Thebuilding features decorated beams andpillars of carved granite and dolerite witha distinctive and pyramidal Vimana (hori-zontally stepped tower) made of light-weight porous bricks, so-called 'floatingbricks', which reduced the weight of theroof structures.

4 The temple's sculptures of highartistic quality illustrate regional

dance customs and Kakatiyan culture.

RAMAPPA TEMPLE

1 Dholavira is a Harappan-era city in Gujarat and is the secondsite to be included on the world heritage list this month

after the Ramappa Temple at Palampet in Telangana's Warangal.

2 Gujarat now has four world heritage sites -- Dholavira,Champaner near Pavagadh, Rani ki Vav in Patan and the his-

toric city of Ahmedabad.

3 Dholavira: a Harappan city, is one of the very few well pre-served urban settlements in South Asia dating from the 3rd

to mid-2nd millennium BCE.

4 Dholavira is an exceptional example of a proto-historicBronze Age urban settlement pertaining to the Harappan

Civilization and bears evidence of a multi-cultural and stratifiedsociety during the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE.

DHOLAVIRA

A MUST VISIT: PM MODI Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was "absolutelydelighted" by this news, noting that Dholavira was an impor-tant urban centre and is one of the most important linkageswith our past. "I first visited Dholavira during my studentdays and was mesmerised by the place. As CM of Gujarat, Ihad the opportunity to work on aspects relating to heritageconservation and restoration in Dholavira,” he said.

1 These are ancient Roman mining galleries in a mountainous Romanian region that

has been at the centre of a long, fierce battlebetween a Canadian mining company and envi-ronmentalists.

2 Rosia Montana, located in western Romania, is home to Europe's largest

gold deposits. Gabriel Resources, a Canadian mining company that gained concession rightsin 1999, planned to extract the gold and silver over a 16-year period. The mining projectinvolved razing four mountain tops, displacing hundreds of local families and leaving behind awaste lake containing cyanide, a toxic chemical used in the process of gold extraction. Butafter activists’ protests, mining stopped in 2014.

ROMAN GOLD MINES

1 A vast forest complex in Thailand has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List,

despite the UN's own experts warning ofhuman rights violations against indigenouspeople in the area.

2 The Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex in western Thailand is rich in biodiversity,

including the critically endangered Siamese croc-odile.

3 But it is also home to an indigenous community of ethnic Karen people, who have long accused the

Thai government of using violence and harassment to pushthem off their land.

4 While many indigenous residents were allegedly driven out of the area,those remaining were not allowed to cultivate the land.

5 Authorities say their farming activities would damage the forest, butactivists argue that traditional farming methods do not harm the envi-

ronment.

THAILAND FOREST PARK

02"There may have been a time when preservation was about saving anold building here or there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in

the business of saving communities and the values they embody." RICHARD MOE, NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION

KNOWLEDGEPEDIATUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2021

03SCHOOL IS COOLTUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2021

It’s not just a place where you get to learn Einstein’s Theory ofRelativity. It’s also a place where you can think beyond theclassroom. Hence we say, SCHOOL IS COOL!

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How does shadow side of tech-nology affect students, teachersand the society at large?

At the very outset, I do not wishto be painted as an opponent of themassive online classes programmewhich has engulfed the entireteaching-learning process for thelast 15 months. But online classesare rather a poor substitute ofclassroom teaching as there are afew aspects that an online basedcourse simply cannot address. Stu-dents instead of evolving intolearners usually turn into the oneslooking to find their work aroundfor plagiarising. Teachers feel allfamished as their core efforts ofteaching may be useful to just ahandful.

How do teachers counter thedaily challenges of digital class-es and academic assistance?

Physical absence of

students makes it harder for theteachers to correctly evaluate thelearning outcomes of the students.A similar rigid structure of pow-erpoints, pdfs inadvertently trainthe students to think in a samerigid structured way. Teacherswork day and night relentlessly toexplore and evolve new ways andmeans to get through to the stu-dents and help them see the thingstheir way. Peddling through to dis-

cover is the only way here for theteachers too.How do educators stay connect-ed to their students and guidethem around issues like anxietyand depression?

Teachers have been walking an ex-tra mile by keeping in touch withthe students on personal level andsilently observing their mental

health. Frequent breaks in be-tween the lectures, counselling ses-sions, yoga classes, music anddance activities are physiologicaland psychological stimulantswhich enhance mindfulness, bodyawareness and healthier choices.

What is that one change thatyou want to see in students,society and the nation at large?Children are the powerhouse wholight up the future of every na-tion. Every child is an outcome ofthree sources: family, teachers andfriends. Family is not a matter ofchoice for the child. But I believethat when the rest two sources be-come one, the child gets the superdose of knowledge, wisdom anda firm-footed path to follow. Ifevery teacher spends ten minuteswith a student individually,he/she touches the life of the stu-dent in ways which are beyondimagination.

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The glint of Bosco Public Schoolescalated on July 20 as theschool conducted culturalexchange programme with GRS

Elementary School, Korea, virtually. Theprogramme was presided over by ourvice principal, Priya Handa and thementors, Annie from GRS ElementarySchool, Korea and Juhi Sarin fromBosco Public School, India.

The proceedings began with awelcome speech and the schoolgave a hearty welcome to the hon-ourable guests.

A presentation showing a glimpse ofdifferent national and religious festivalsgave an insight into India's customs,traditions and cuisines.

Audience was allured by the presen-tations given by GRS ElementarySchool, Korea. Students of GRS exhibit-ed their traditional food, differentmusical instruments and songs thatcharmed everyone present. They alsoenlightened everyone about the historyof Korea. The programme culminatedwith a vote of thanks and left the sparkof happiness on everyone’s face.

Virtual cultural exchange with KoreaChildren are the powerhousewho light up the future

Shining stars of CBSE class XIIVenkateshwar InternationalSchool, Sec10 Dwarka, New DelhiMegha Mittal 98.8% (S)Ishita Dey 99.2% (C)Riddhi Roy 98.2% (H)

Venketeshwar Global School,Sec 13, RohiniAryan Malhotra 98.20% (S)Siddharth Jain 97.60% (C)Aarya Dixit 97.60% (H)Riddhi Khosla 97.60% (H)

Vidya Mandir Public School,Sec15A, FaridabadAakash Singh 98% (S)Sneha Vashistha 98.8% (C)

Vidya Niketan School, NITFaridabadDinky Gupta 97.6% (S)Bhumika 99% (C)

Vidya School, GurugramKuldeep 93.6% (S)Priyanshu 92.2% (C)Sakshi 95.6% (H)

Vivekanand Global School,GurgaonAnsh Khurana 94.6% (S)Dipti 94.6% (C)

Vivekanand School, Anand Vihar, DelhiManav Tuteja 99% (S)Anjali Jayan 97.80% (C)Aayushi Gupta 99.20% (H)Shivangi Sharma 99.20% (H)

VSPK International School,Sec 13, RohiniMukund Mittal 97% (S)Vaibhav Gupta 98.80% (C)Kashish Goyal 98% (H)

Yuvashakti Model School, Sec 3, RohiniUdit 94.20% (S)Vibha Sharma 93.80% (C)Vanshika Rawat 90.60% (H)

S - SSCIENCE; C - CCOMMERCE;

H - HHUMANITIES; V - VVOCATIONAL

NANDINI BIDALIA, Principal, MDHInternational School, Sector 6, Dwarka

Saint Pathanjali divided yoga into eight disciplines as

Yoga – Crucial part of wellness

The third discipline is yoga and ithelps the body to prepare for themeditation practices and also pre-

vents from disease providing the neces-sary immunity. Asana keeps the bodyflexible and relaxed. Also meditationafter yoga makes concentration possible.Yoga has always been a crucial part ofwellness. I think the realisation is occur-ring now because people have startedtaking health seriously. In the hustle of

daily life, we completely disre-gard the need for self-care.The role of yoga has grownmulti-fold.

K GOKUL,class VII ,

RVS MatriculationHr Sec School,

Sulur

1. Iyamam, 2. Niayamam, 3. Asana, 4. Pranayama, 5. Prathyagara,

6. Tharana, 7. Dhyana, 8. Samadhi.

Saint Pathanjali, who lived fivethousand years ago, gave a shapeto this ‘yoga art’, which is time

immemorial. The mankind owes to saintPathanjali for whatever knowledge onehas now in yoga culture. SaintPathanjali is the father ofyoga arts. The Sanskritword ‘yoga’ means con-centration and coordina-tion. The coordinationbetween body and soul andmind and everything tomerge with divine force.With the clear understandingof the divinity learning aserene life in consonance withthe law of nature – the divineforce is called yoga.

Yoga – Crucial part of wellness

Born in a middle-class, bohemian,Jewish, German-speaking family,Franz Kafka was a novelist and

short-story writer whose write-ups inspirerealism and ambiguous supernaturalforces. His journey from infancy to adult-hood was disturbingly lonely and torment-ed because of his formal, strict, and abu-sive relations with his father. Such condi-tions framed his opinions about life andbirthed in him a vague form of self-hatredand lack of confidence. He preferredthinking of himself as someone regardedas socially repulsive, mentally aswell as physically. His expres-sions are at par with the psy-chology of how a human brainworks. He had the power to

infuse in his readersa sense of familiari-ty and understand-ing. Kafka isauthentic and rare.He is relatable and

highly passionate when it comes toabsolute truthfulness and precise consci-entiousness.

At times when men feel deserted andanxious, they go to Kafka for relatabilityand understanding. Kafka's protagonistsare men with common yet unspoken prob-

lems like anxiety and isolation. His ideasexplore and introduce themes of guilt,fear, alienation, and many other mentalissues prevalent in today’s world. Hisworks gave us a new word calledKafkaesque, which means any realistic andfantastic incidents that resemble his man-nerism. In his will, he mentioned that hedesires all his works to be burnt and neverread by anyone. Although, after his death,all his diary entries, the letters he wrote,and his incomplete novels were published.His ideas are a source of great inspirationand support not only to thepeople of his times andthe readers of today's

generation, but theones yet to come also.

UDISHA TIWARI, class XI,

CMS GN2, Lucknow

FRANZ KAFKA

TRUTHFULLY RELATABLE

Matific isorganisingJunior Maths

Championship forclasses Nursery -6thto be held on August11 and 12, 2021. Thisis India's First OnlineGamified Maths com-petition.

Winning studentsfrom each grade willbe lauded with`25,000 Amazon

voucher as 1st Prize,`10,000 Amazonvoucher as 2nd Prizeand `5,000 as 3rdprize along with thecertificatesand medals,inspiringthem to staymotivatedtowards thesubject.

Winningschools will

get cash prizes worth`4,50,000 as 1stprize, `2,50,000 as2nd prize and`75,000 as 3rd prize.

Air Force GoldenJubilee Institute,Subroto Park, New

Delhi hosted the ‘11th AFGJI-IQF Inter-school Mono Act’ event

and ‘IQF Swami Vivekananda Quiz’from July 21-23 under the guid-

ance of principal, Poonam S Rampal. The English Mono Act was an

online competition which was streamedlive through Streamyard

on YouTube and was co-hosted by Indus Quality

Foundation. The event was open to

students from classes VIII andIX in category I and classes X to

XII in category II. The studentswho participated in mono act were

from 37 schools of Delhi-NCR andother cities of India whereas in theIQF Quiz, 2271 students and professionals partici-pated from all across India. The quiz also wit-nessed overseas participation from countries likeOman and Australia. The distinguished chief guestfor the event was Shobit Arya, founder and pub-lisher-Wisdom Tree, a leading publishing houseknown for innovation and creativity.

The opening speech was given by AshwaniKumar, chairman Board of Trustees, IQF. The spe-cial guest was Swami Bodhamayanandaji, directorof Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence,Hyderabad.

After the invocation, Poonam S Rampal wel-comed the chief guest, the distinguished guests andall the participants.

For the competition, the participants were giventhree themes based on Swami Vivekananda’s

thoughts and sayings. The three exceptional perform-

ers in category I were Rushil Vijfrom Indraprastha InternationalSchool, Vibhuti Satija from MataJai Kaur Public School, New Delhiand Pia Gujral from AmityInternational School, Gurugram.

In category II, the three exception-al performers were Rohit Shukla fromTagore International School, East of

Kailash, Shreyambika Narayanan from ChinmayaVidhyalaya, Vasant Vihar and Riddhi Garg from DLFPublic School, Shahibabad. Prizes and certificates ofexcellence were given to them and participation cer-tificates were awarded to all the students.

The vote of thanks was proposed by the vice-principal Rashmi Soota.

AFGJI hosts interschool events

Matific's 2-day Junior MathChampionship starts tomorrow

Q1:Which player was the first

to win five straight

Wimbledon tennis titles?

a. Bjorn Borg

b. Roger Federer

c. Arthur Ashe

d. Andre Agassi

Q2:In polo, what is a period

of play called?

a. Half

b. Quarter

c. Set

d. Chukka

Q3:Who is the highest wicket-

taker in Test cricket?

a. Shane Warne

b. Brian Lara

c. Courtney Walsh

d. Muttiah Muralitharan

Q4:In which sport has India

won 8 gold medals in the

Olympics so far?

a. Wrestling

b. Hockey

c. Swimming

d. Tennis

Q5:Lionel Messi won his

147th Argentina cap at

the Copa America, equalling whose

all-time record?

a. Diego Maradona

b. Javier Mascherano

c. Gabriel Batistuta

d. Sergio Romero

Q6:Neeraj Chopra won India’s

second individual gold

medal in the Olympics. Which other

Indian has achieved this fete?a. Abhinav Bindra

b. PT Usha

c. Gagan Narang

d. Milkha Singh

Q7:Which Indian batsman made

three consecutive centuries

in his first three Test matches?a. Vinoo Mankad

b. Mohammad Azharuddin

c. Sunil Gavaskar

d. Gundappa Viswanath

Q8:The term ‘double fault’ is

associated with which sport?

a. Cricket

b. Kabaddi

c. Tennis

d. Football

Q9:Name the Indian cricketer

who took all the ten

wickets in an innings in a test match.a. Kapil Dev

b. Ravindra Jadeja

c. Anil Kumble

d. R Ashwin

Photo: GETTY IMAGES

QUIZ TIME!

ANSWERS: 1. a. Bjorn Borg 2. d. Chukka

3. d. Muttiah Muralitharan 4. b. Hockey

5. b. Javier Mascherano 6. a. Abhinav Bindra

7. b. Mohammad Azharuddin 8. c. Tennis

9. c. Anil Kumble

Lionel Messi

Photo: PTI

S he had the time of her life in Tokyo with a medal on

Olympic debut being the icing on the cake but Indian

boxer Lovlina Borgohain says all of it is “done and dusted

now” and she will start afresh in every aspect of her game

for the Paris edition in 2024. The 23-year-old welterweight

(69kg) bronze medalist from Baro Mukhia village in Assam is

only the third Indian boxer to finish on the podium, joining

six-time world champion M C Mary Kom and Vijender Singh.

TIME TO START AFRESH

I ndian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra feels there are more

stories about his life that can be unearthed in the future

and his biopic can wait as the Olympic gold medallist vows to

focus on upcoming tournaments. “Don’t know about the

biopic. I want my focus to be on the game and after I stop

playing these will look good. Then there will be a new story,

having said that, let me focus on my game too. Till an athlete

is active, there should be no biopics,” Neeraj said.

GAME FIRST, BIOPIC LATER

I ndian wrestler and bronze medal winner Bajrang Punia

wants to leave no stone unturned in practicing and training

for future events. Bajrang, who was India’s flag bearer during

the closing ceremony of the Games, promised to keep working

hard “in order to keep the flag of India high”. “I would like to

thank the people of India for the opportunity to be the flag-

bearer at the Tokyo Olympics. I promise that I will keep work-

ing hard to keep the flag of my country high,” he tweeted.

KEEPING FLAG FLYING HIGH

Medals table ranking at Tokyo

Olympics highest in over 40

years, even as athletes say

time to shift focus

India finished 48th on themedal tally in Tokyo, itshighest ranking in overfour decades. If one wereto go by the total numberof medals, India wouldhave actually finished33rd. However, ranking

is done primarily based on goldmedals won. The previous best inthis period was the 51st rank finishat Beijing in 2008, when India wonthree medals, including AbhinavBindra's gold.

India has finished significantlyhigher in the era in which it used towin gold in hockey, but that time isnot really comparable both becauseof the dozens of countries that havecome into being since then and theexpansion in the number of sportsand hence medals. In Moscow, for in-stance, India finished at 23rd rankbut with just a solitary medal, thehockey gold. A repeat of that atTokyo would have placed India atjoint 63rd, a measure of how differ-ent the two eras are.

In London 2012, India had fin-ished 57th despite winning moremedals than in Beijing because themedal table ranks countries by gold,silver and bronze in that order andIndia didn't win a gold in London. InRio in 2016, the medal tally crashedto just two and so did the ranking to67th. From there, it's now gone upnearly 20 places.

Game of many firsts

■ India's journey started with abang, tapered off in the middle andthen ended with the kind of spec-tacular fireworks that make historicevents grand. India was quite lit-erally on a roller-coaster during theTokyo Olympics.

■ So, there was the first medal intrack-and-field which also happenedto be the first gold in 13 years, thefirst medal in hockey in 41 years,the first silver in weightlifting, thefirst boxing medal in nine years,

the first woman with two Olympicmedals, the most number of debu-tants ending up on the podium, andthe most number of medals everwon, it all happened in one singleGames for India.

■ And it all happened at the Gameswhich carried the tag of troubled longbefore the opening ceremony, thanksto the unrelenting COVID-19 pan-demic. It all happened after one yearof shutdown that sent most trainingand competition schedules haywire.

■ Mighty impressive? No, it wasway more than that.

Story of resilience

■ India's campaign at the OlympicGames was as much a story of hu-man resilience as of sporting ex-cellence and it came to the fore onthe opening day of competitions it-self starting with Mirabai Chanuwho won silver in . weightlifting.

■ Then there were those who werehit by the curse of the fourth-placefinish. Their agony was a story initself as golfer Aditi Ashok and thewomen's hockey team ended with-in touching distance of the podiumbut not quite there.

■ So, India's performance at theGames was bigger than the unprece-dented seven medals. It reflected con-fidence, best personified by Choprawhen he owned the Olympic stadiumwith his self-assured gait during thefinal in which the 90m man -- the greatJohannes Vetter -- wilted.

■ In Tokyo, the Indians who did wellwere not surprising anyone, theywere living up to the billing earnedover the last three years. Surprisewas some of them falling short likethe shooters, and the archers. Andin that lay the country’s story ofprogress in sports. India is not quitethere yet but is certainly inchingcloser one step at a time.

Indian sportspersons who capped off country’s best-ever

performance in the Olympics with a haul of seven medals,

including its first gold in a track and field event.

(anti-clockwise) From the top, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra,

wrestler Ravi Dahiya, wrestler Bajrang Punia, weightlifter

Mirabai Chanu, boxer Lovlina Borgohain, badminton player PV

Sindhu, and the Indian men's hockey team.