New Delhi, May 14 -- Agrima Kanwar was 18 months old when Abhinav Bindra won gold in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. But as she got aware of his heroics, she followed him as her guiding light. And just the past week, she became the first medal winner for Himachal Pradesh, clinching silver in the women's Skeet shooting competition in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 in Bihar.

Agrima said she really did know much about Abhinav Bindra him before she started shooting, "But when I started pistol shooting some years ago, my father, a Colonel in the Indian Army, gifted me a copy of Mr. Bindra's autobiography, A Shot At History. He said I would find it relatable. And he was absolutely right," she said.

The young shooter was particularly moved b...