With pride, privilege and immense pleasure we announce Yahoo! India’s first-ever Person of the Year 2012. MANGTE CHUNGNEIJANG MAR
Y KOM, Olympic boxer, five-time world champion, model Indian woman, ambassador of the northeast, mother, daughter, wife, friend, teacher, muse… it was not a difficult choice to pick the one Indian whose life story begs to be told. Editor BIJOY VENUGOPAL and photographer HARI ADIVAREKAR travelled to India’s far-flung, forgotten, troubled northeastern state of Manipur to discover the Mary behind the publicity photographs, the video grabs, the adulation and the awards. They came back with one verdict: she’s a champion you'll love.
