It’s a gesture that should have made most of our cricketing superstars and demigods remove the permanently plastered headphones from their ears.

A week ago, badminton champion and Olympic silver medalist, Saina Nehwal announced a Rs 2 lakh cash reward from her own earnings to high jumper HN Girisha who like her, had won a silver medal, India’s lone podium finisher at the London Paralympic Games. This news received some amount of space and airtime in sports segments of newspapers and TV channels, respectively. Apart from Saina’s contribution, financial support for the high jumper came in from the Union Sports Ministry and a few government bodies. Since then, the buzz and accolades around this athlete seems to have died down.