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• Five-time World Champion Boxer Mary Kom: Fighting for India, and Against Prejudice [New York Times]    
  

  Mary Kom hopes to box for India in the summer Olympic Games scheduled for Rio de Janiero in 2016. In her autobiography, she accuses judges in India of bias against women boxers like her from the northeast Indian state of Manipur

“Ms. Mary Kom is a five-time world champion, was the Olympic bronze medalist at the London Games, and gold medalist at this fall’s Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

Ms. Kom, a devout Christian from the tiny Kom tribal community”