Why Gurindervir Singh and Animesh Kujur are national treasures
On a Friday evening at the Birsa Munda Stadium in Ranchi, Gurindervir Singh, twenty-five, from Jalandhar in Punjab, ran 10.17 seconds in the 100m heats. A new Indian national record. Within minutes, Animesh Kujur, a young sprinter from Jharkhand, ran 10.15 in a separate heat and broke it. The national record had changed hands twice…