Elfin Recite

Vijender Singh’s father, a bus driver, had to work overtime to pay for Vijender’s coaching. Although he went to win a bronze for India at the Beijing Olympics earlier this year, he still has to supplement his sport with a job in the Haryana police. Owing to his soft chocolate boy good looks, a welcome paradox to his steely fists of fury, he has been getting modelling offers in which he was rather interested and practised to take a step on the fashion walk. He even recently walked the ramp, and confessed in an interview to the BBC that it was tougher than boxing!