‘I’m shocked it happened to me’. Record-breaking athlete comes to grips with caste-based discrimination

Chandra Kala Lamgade, who has represented Nepal in two South Asian Games and an Asian Championship, is seven months pregnant and was allegedly attacked for standing up against discrimination.

She holds two national records in athletics, works for Nepal Police, and is seven months pregnant. But all these things didn’t matter to her neighbours who beat her up, even putting her unborn child at risk.