New Delhi, Jul 7 (UNI) Born in small village named Mugal Chak in Naushehra Pannua taluk near Tarn Taran, Punjab, Rajwinder Kaur the eldest of three sisters and a brother grew up in a culture where girls had to work the chores at home and sweat it out in near by farms for daily wage. Studying was never mandatory, and playing hockey was a rarity.
Her father an auto driver and mother a house wife, there were days in Rajwinder's growing up years when hoping to eat three meals a day was a luxury.
But Rajwinder's fate was to change when a few seniors in her school Sri Guru Arjun Dev Public School insisted on her taking up hockey.