Born into a joint farming family in Khandra village, Haryana, Neeraj started going to a stadium in Panipat as a teenager to get fit, picked up a bamboo javelin, and went on to win India’s first Olympic gold in athletics.
A small step toward self-improvement can spark historic greatness.
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