Kohli’s note lands like a celebrity shout-out and more like one era acknowledging another, Nehwal’s peak years arrived when Indian sport was learning to widen its vocabulary beyond cricket: she carried the loneliness of an individual discipline, lived under constant scrutiny and still delivered landmark moments that made badminton feel mainstream. Her Olympic bronze at London 2012 became a cultural reference point, and the milestones kept coming - Commonwealth games single gold in 2010, Super Series titles, Asian Games medals, and the rare feat of becoming world No.1 in 2015.
