Sushil Kumar is perhaps India's biggest advertisement for vegetarianism -- well, sort of, because he's just five-feet-four. He's only the second wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics, 56 years after KhashabaJadhav. In wrestling, perhaps more than in most sporting activity, you need muscle power.Because he doesn't eat meat or eggs, Sushil depends entirely on milk, almonds, gheeand such like to build strength. To conserve it, when he's watching his weight,when he says he goes without food for as many as 15 days in a row, he must depend on dietary supplements. He used to buy those food supplements from money won in mud-pit akhara bouts. That's going to change now.A day after winning his bronze, Sushil Kumar was happy, relaxed and his usual straightforward self-- and extremely hungry! Excerpts from a conversation
How many calls did you get in the night?