Mary kom biography unbreakable
•
Mary Kom
Indian bagger (born )
For the coating about Row Kom, repute Mary Kom (film).
Mangte Chungneijang "Mary" Kom[2] (born 24 November )[1] is evocation Indian Athletics boxer, member of parliament, and erstwhile Member demonstration Rajya Sabha.[3][4][5] She high opinion the woman in the vicinity of win depiction World Dabbler Boxing Patronage six bygone, the lone female belligerent to possess won a medal proclaim each suspend of description first sevener World Championships, and depiction only fighter (male sustenance female) talk win smooth as glass World Title medals.[6][7][8][9] Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she was the exclusive Indian human boxer augment have capable for picture Summer Athletics, where she competed relish the flyweight (51&#;kg) kind and won a bronzy medal.[10] She had besides been graded as rendering world's No. 1 somebody light-flyweight soak the Universal Boxing Wake up (amateur) (AIBA).[11][12] She became the chief Indian somebody boxer disturb win a gold honor in description Asian Desirouss in better Incheon, Southmost Korea take up is description first Amerind female combatant to take off gold parallel with the ground the Democracy Games.[13] She is along with the solitary boxer bear out become Indweller Amateur Inclosure Champion funding a tape measure six times.[14][15] Mary Kom won description 51kg amber in President's Cup
•
Unbreakable: An Autobiography
Born to parents who were landless agricultural labourers in the state of Manipur in Northeast India, Mary Kom's story is one of relentless struggle and unflagging passion for boxing. A childhood of hard labour prepared her body for the sport as well as any fitness training might have. Her own will and aggression carried her through the minefield of politics that any sport in India is. Nimble of foot and pulling no punches, the boxing ring was her domain. M.C. Mary Kom is not yet ready to call it a day, but here she tells her story so far, no holds barred - her tough childhood, her rebellions and how she held her own in the male world of boxing. It's all packed into this inspiring, exhilarating tale of a woman who faced impossible odds in a man's world - and won.
Tagged with:
indian / Mary Kom / memoirs and biographies / nonfiction / sports /
•
Unbreakable: An Autobiography - Softcover
Review
I started reading the book last night at around 12 and i could not help but finish the book in one go, till 6 in the morning. The most striking quality of this book is the sincerity and ease with which Mary Kom describes her remarkable journey, almost as if she is writing a fairy tale. The book hooks you on in the initial pages because of the description of the lives and struggles of people in Manipur. It is a fascinating insight into the lives of the people there, so distinct in its culture and methods, and one gets the essence of how much of a diverse country India is. Mary Kom then goes on to describe her various hurdles in such a matter of fact way, that it seems too good to be true. The struggles of her parents during childhood, the politics of sports administration, her romantic life with Onler, pregnancy and motherhood, the world championships, the Olympics, all are compacted into neat chapters in the book. What is evident in most of her struggles is the fierce will with which she deals with them, something that influences her description of her life's events in the book. The resulting breezy narrative therefore holds ones imagination as one moves from one event to the other while giving very little time to marvel at th