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Deepa Malik
Dimdima
|October 2019
A tale of grit and courage

DEEPA MALIK, 49, is a living legend. A paraplegic, she was conferred with the Padma Shri in 2017 by the Government of India for her exploits in sports.
This story is from the October 2019 edition of Dimdima.
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