Milkha Singh: Remembering Independent India’s first iconic sporting hero

Milkha Singh, popularly known as the Flying Sikh, breathed his last in Chandigarh on Friday night. The 91-year-old had contracted Covid-19 a month back and lost his wife Nirmal Kaur to the virus earlier this week. Pakistan president General Ayub Khan gave Milkha Singh the famous moniker “Flying Sikh” Milkha…