For Mint Lounge, a cover story on Vinesh Phogat, her journey from a street agitation against a powerful sexual predator, to within a whisker of an Olympic gold, and home to Balali.
‘This was a heartbreak so large, on a margin so paltry, it was beyond measurement on any sporting Richter. Its particular cruelty was that it happened to the most courageous sportsperson her country has ever produced, which was also its feeble consolation.’



