CWG medals, state silence? How actively are states promoting sports and athletes

NEW DELHI: Somewhere on a muddy school field in Haryana right now, a teenager is perhaps drilling the same throwing technique over and over, just as she had watched on television just days ago. Her sole aim is to pull off the one like Sharmila Dhankar, India's Commonwealth Games shot put gold medallist.Before the 2026 CWG campaign, she, like many of us, had almost certainly never heard the name. And it's not because Dhankar had not won anything before the Glasgow Games; she had, a gold medal in the Women's Shot Put F57 event at the 2026 Fazza International Para Athletics Championship, but because one of the primary institutions whose entire job was to carry that story back from the medal podium to villages and training grounds across the state has, for all practical purposes, gone quiet.That's the part of this story that rarely gets told.