Mann Ki Baat · 31 August 2025
Episode 125 featured young water-sports champions from Odisha and Srinagar, Shahdol's footballers, a Surat security guard who keeps the memory of fallen soldiers alive, and a Bihar woman whose solar pump irrigates her neighbours' fields.
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Person · Odisha
A canoeist from a village with no sports tradition, who discovered the sport while swimming in the river and joined a SAI centre in 2017. She has won 41 national-level medals, and two golds at the first Khelo India Water Sports Festival on Dal Lake.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
A young paddler from a labouring family in Srinagar who took up water sports after watching boats on Dal Lake, trained for ten years, and won the first gold medal of the Khelo India Water Sports Festival. His dream is an Olympic medal.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh
Young footballers from a football-mad village in Shahdol district whose story reached German coach Dietmar Beiersdorfer. He offered to train some of them at an academy in Germany.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Surat, Gujarat
A security guard in Surat who has spent years gathering information and photographs about thousands of Indian soldiers killed in service since the First World War. He stays in touch with many of their families.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Ratanpura, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
A farmer married young and raising four children on a small plot, who joined a self-help group and got a solar pump. It now irrigates more than 40 acres of her village, other farmers pay her by UPI for water, and villagers call her "Solar Didi".
As described in Mann Ki Baat