India, one gold is not enough: because the second most populous nation on Earth wins so few medals

When he was 12 and weighed 90 kilos, his friends teased him by calling him “the mayor” because of his size. He fought, broke hives to scrape off honey, and stole mangoes in the countryside next to his farm outside Khandra, a village in Haryana state, 100km north of Delhi. Worried about being overweight, his father forced him to join the gym.