Paris, Jul 23 (PTI) Purnima Mahato didn’t even know when her son Siddharth and daughter Archisa turned 17 and 10 as she would often feel guilty of being a perennially absentee mother.

But in her three-decade career as an archery coach, the myriad desire to see one of her wards stand on the Olympic podium allowed her to make sacrifices and also demand a bit of it from her children.

“We have everything but an Olympic medal. Archery has become life for me. My children grew up on their own and I didn’t even realise,” the Dronacharya Awardee coach told

Source: PTI News