Why only Vinesh?

Everyone’s wrestling with someone/something.

So Vinesh Phogat ultimately didn’t make it past the Asian Games trials, despite tormentor WFI reluctantly allowing our champion grappler to compete in her newly chosen 53kg category.

Remember how a heart-breaking 100gm extra disqualified her from the 50kg bout at the 2024 Paris Olympics?

But, helloh, she’s not the only one, no? At any given moment, thousands in any gender category are wrestling with Vinesh’s same-to-same weight problem. It’s minimum demand of the highly competitive Image Olympics. That’s why Ozempic-sunken cheeks are today’s hottest look.

Actually, grappling has become the top (non) sport; everyone’s activity du jour. Jor se.

Ranveer-Dhurandhar is grappling with Farhan-FWICE.
Red-carpet divas with their costume-cages.

‘Influencees’ with the demands of influencers.
The hormonal horny and hoity-toity publishers alike are grappling with doubts over their object of drool: human or pornbot/AI slop?

Gujarat Titans with losing face more than finals. The (un)match was before home crowd and in a stadium named after the state’s former CM. Btw, would India losing an international championship there be deemed anti-national?

Sooryavanshi, just 15, must grapple with fame.

The rest of GenZ with too little time; GenA with too much. The former with acne; the latter with arthritis and adult diapers.

Children grapple all year with homework; their mothers with housework in the help-less month of May.

Kids with the conflicting pulls of parental ‘Don’t’ and peer ‘Just Do It’.

Students with the fear that the exam they’ve swotted years for will be cancelled.

Delhi Gymkhana with central sarkar; Bombay’s Turf Club with state one.

Slum-dwellers with bulldozers.

BMC with acute problem of ‘monsoon preparedness’ and chronic encroachment.

Public with too much garmi , too little rozi-roti , sadak , pani , fuel, LPG.

El Nino is grappling with Iran war for ‘Top Global Disaster’ crown. Maybe, they’ve already been Trumped.

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