- 16-year-old Manu Bhaker perfected her aim in a manual shooting range in a small school in Haryana's Jhajjar.
- Manu has already contributed to two gold medals for India in the ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- This urge to hit the big time is inspiring for children in Goria and surrounding villages.
The noise of children playing outside barely registers in the room as the twang! twang! of pellet guns pierces the air. About 10 students are shooting at targets in silence, their eyes fixed on the small black circle 10 metres away, shoulders squared, one hand in their pockets. Younger children are lifting and dropping bricks with one arm, to work on their alignment.
It is practice time at the shooting range in the Universal Senior Secondary School, Goria village, in Jhajjar district in Haryana, 125 km from Delhi. It is in this room that 16-year-old prodigy Manu Bhaker spent many silent hours, sharpening her aim.
Read more of this in an inspiring report by Himanshi Dhawan published in Times of India....
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