“When I won the medal, PM Modi called me, and his first words were to greet me in Marathi, my mother tongue. It boosts the confidence of the player so much. It feels like our entire nation supports us.” “Before leaving for Olympics, when we met PM at his house, I was sitting in one of the last lines. I did not know but even then he had observed me. And when we talked on call after my medal in Paris, he remembered that I had sat in the last row. Such are his observation skills”