Aronyatesh Ganguly

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Career highlights

2019: TT gold in Russia

Sumati Yengkhom, July 16, 2019: The Times of India

Eight-year-old Aronyatesh Ganguly is a real winner. The boy from West Bengal’s Serampore has not only made the country proud by bagging gold in table tennis at the World Children’s Winners Games 2019 held in Moscow, he is also a cancer survivor.

The event is an international sports competition for childhood cancer survivors. “Aronyatesh was so excited he forgot the suffering he had gone through,” said his mother Kaveri, who accompanied him to Moscow. Participants in Moscow competed in six events — track, chess, football, table tennis, swimming and rifle shooting.

“Aronyatesh was among 10 children from India and the only one from Bengal who competed with kids from across the globe. He has amazing sporting skills and participated in all six disciplines,” said Ameeta Bhatia, a volunteer social worker at the paediatric department of Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), Mumbai, where Aronyatesh was treated for leukaemia.

Diagnosed with leukaemia in April 2016, Aronyatesh had to stay in Mumbai for 11 months for his treatment. After numerous rounds of chemotherapy and other medication, doctors declared him cancerfree in December 2018. But he needs regular follow-ups and treatment so that the disease does not recur. It was during his long stay in TMH that volunteers and doctors discovered his passion for sports.

Aronyatesh had been practising for the event for more than two months along with regular check-ups to keep himself healthy. “His day would start at 5.30am. From 6am to 7.30am, he went for track and football practice. After that, it was swimming, followed by chess and table tennis. He attended shooting classes in the evening,” said Kaveri.

For the shooting classes, he would travel to Bhadreshwar every day. Chief coach at Bulls Eye Shooting Academy Pankaj Podder found a prodigy in Aronyatesh, who had hit the bull’s eye on the second day of his training. The boy has been performing well ever since.

“I’m amazed at the kind of concentration he has at such a young age. We’re planning to train him further,” said Podder, an acclaimed shooter himself. The World Children’s Winners Games is a yearly event organised by Podari Zhizn (Grant of Life) Foundation, founded by two Russian actors.