No point fretting over past...I am world champion: Nikhat Zareen

Maybe I'll get more real sense of it all when I return to India and meet my family, says the country's new world championNikhat Zareen has taught our world, hindered by patriarchy and tradition seeking, that scraped knees, a broken tooth and the occasional black eye can take a girl places. That these are not chains that bind you back as society expects. Instead these are wings on which you fly to your own sun. To each her own. " Kitney questions hain aapke, batao?" It is a drowsy, sleepy Nikhat who calls back from Istanbul, all because she had quietly promised to, without actually consenting. "I haven't slept since last night, the excitement of the thing, thinking about what will happen when I return to India. Tell me, who can sleep in all this madness? The hazaar interviews since morning. I haven't found a moment with myself alone," Nikhat Zareen complained, not bothering to stifle a loud yawn on Friday evening.

Indian Boxer Nikhat Zareen scripts history in gold

But she seems to shake off the sleepy eyes when asked how the journey of the last three years - the infamous 'trial' with Mary Kom in December 2019, a spot in the Tokyo Olympics gone, and general alienation - affected her personal evolution. "You know, I never realised it back then, but being with my family almost immediately after that trial really, really helped me grow. I had practically grown up in camps. Then the bout happened, you look for a place to hide, you go back home. I was home, hiding, healing, when the pandemic hit. I can't even begin to explain how therapeutic being at home proved for me. It totally caught me by surprise. "I spent all my time with my year-old nephew and niece - Abdul Malik and Mahad - and pata hi nahin chala, kahan time gaya,