Master Stroke: Story of Swapna Barman, India's first heptathlete to win Asiad gold

Swapna, who hails from Ghoshpara Colony in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, had to fight all odds including acute poverty.
The people of the district and her neighbours in particular, were elated on her achievement.
Her mother worked as a labourer in small tea gardens while her father was a rickshaw puller and is now bedridden.