'A magazine you can rely on'

Track and field athlete P.T. Usha picked up four golds at the1986 Asian Games in Seoul.

Whenever you read The Hindu, you know that it is a paper you can rely on. Whenever I want to confirm a result, I would look at The Hindu because I know the paper will never get it wrong.”

Coming from The Hindu stable, The Sportstar continued the great tradition, it was a dependable magazine, it used to give the right picture. At a time when we used to see only our passport size photos often, there were some lovely pictures of my running style in action.

That meant a lot to a young athlete like me then, it motivated me in a big way.

(As told to Stan Rayan)