Virender Singh: The silent warrior

The unbelievably tough journeys of physically-handicapped athletes is not highlighted too often. But they deserve as much attention as able-bodied athletes. So here's the story of an Indian wrestler who can neither speak nor hear, whose life story has even been made into a documentary that was recently screened. This is the story of the man nicknamed Goonga Pehelwan. Virender Singh may live in a world of silence but he has created enough noise in the wrestling circuit to get noticed.