Gulmarg, Mar 1 (IANS) The medals shimmered in the faint mountain sunlight, but when asked where the true gold was made, athletes didn’t indicate the podium. Instead, they pointed upward to the snow-covered ridges of Gulmarg and the strict, unyielding environment of the High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS).At the sixth Khelo India Winter Games, held here from February 23 to 26, athletes from all over India, representing states, Union Territories, and major institutions like the Indian Army, CRPF…
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Gulmarg (J&K), Feb 25 (IANS) In a country where snow falls like a birth right, Bhavani Thekkeda Nanjunda had to borrow her first winter. She grew up in the coffee-scented hills of Kodagu, Karnataka where the earth is red, the mornings are misty, and snow exists only on television screens. She was 23 the first time Bhavani felt the sting of ice on her cheeks, before she learned how silence sounds different when it’s blanketed in white. On Tuesday at the Khelo India Winter Games 2026 in Gulm…