Choosing limitless possibilities

Start with a photo. In the book's picture, Sheetal Devi, a para-archer born without arms, draws her compound bow with her feet. Where there is a will, there is a way.

The Paralympic Games are a world stage for athletes with locomotor (bones, joints, muscles), sensory (sight, hearing) or intellectual disabilities. They celebrate resilience (bouncing back from hard times) and challenge stereotypes: fixed, unfair ideas about what people can do.

India at the Paralympics. India first took part in 1968 and won its first medal, in swimming, in 1972. Dr Deepa Malik, who has received the Khel Ratna, the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri, is one of its best-known Paralympians.

Her turning point. At 29 she was found to have a tumour in her spine. After surgery she was paralysed from the waist down and told she would use a wheelchair for life.

Two choices. She could squander (waste) her life in regret, or turn it into 'a world of limitless possibilities'. A sports lover and a former swimmer, she turned to para-athletics.

Her breakthrough came at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, with a silver medal in shot-put (throwing a heavy metal ball as far as you can): a personal victory, and a step towards changing how people see disability.