More than just being lissome, she can leave you gasping at the way she bends her limbs into splendid yoga postures. And she can now walk tall, having grabbed the Champion of Champions award and three gold medals at the recently held 6th International
Yoga Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bharti Solanki, 24, is not just another girl from rural hinterland. Hailing from a sleepy village called Lati in the Gir Somnath district of Gujarat, Bharti has done her illiterate parents proud of her crowning glory.
When Bharti was back from Kuala Lampur, people of her village were readying for her thunderous welcome. It was a heart-warming sight when they took out a procession in the village, looking wide-eyed at the girl of their village who brought laurels to their otherwise obscure corner.
Both of Bharti’s parents are illiterate and make a living by farming on their land. But they were....
