- Lived:
- b. 24 November 1982, Kangathei village, Churachandpur district, Manipur → Imphal's training halls, the world's rings, New Delhi; living, as of September 2026
- Field:
- amateur (Olympic-style) boxing — the lightest weight divisions, 45 to 51 kg; the founding generation of women's boxing in India
- The Big Idea:
- A tenant farmer's daughter from a village of rice fields, of a tribe numbering a few thousand, learned to box in secret because her father would not have allowed it — and won more world championship medals than any boxer, man or woman, ever has.
- In their words:
- "I am simply, simply unstoppable" — to the press after her sixth world title, New Delhi, 2018 (as of September 2026)
- If you remember one thing:
- The last name in this book of three hundred belongs to a Kom farmer's daughter who was not allowed to box — and the fact that you know her name anyway is the answer to the question this book opened with.