Assam’s Nayan Moni wins Arjuna Award, recalls days of struggle

Shillong: Practice nujua jodi gharatu thakibo nuara (If you don’t go for practice, you can’t enter home)… The words of her husband still ring in her ears as an ecstatic Nayan Moni Saikia describes her sentiments on becoming India’s first ever Lawn Bowls player to bag the prestigious Arjuna Award.