The ‘Dhing Express’ is more than the sum of her parts. From ‘Mon Jai’ activism to her feats on the field, she is Assam’s new darling
After winning gold in Finland, when Hima Das called the members of Mon Jai (‘I wish’)—an activist group she had founded in 2013—the first thing she wanted to know was if the perpetrators of the two ghastly murders in train toilets in Assam a couple of days back had been arrested.
News of the murders had agitated her. Just a few years ago, she used to travel all alone at night in empty train compartments to Dhing railway station—the nearest to her home at Kandhulimari village in Assam’s Nagaon district. “She used to take the train after tournaments in Guwahati and other places. I always felt scared for her, but Hima believed God would always protect her,” says father Ranjit Das.
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