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Scars don't bother me

Aishwarya Pissay, the first Indian woman to win five national bike titles, on the grit and gumption it takes to make a champion.

YOUNG Aishwarya Pissay had no inkling that a below average performance in the twelfth grade would pave the way for a career that she had only imagined in her wildest dreams. Having grown up in a regular Indian family, she was expected to take the college-graduation-job route like her peers. She set out on

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