World champion PV Sindhu returns to hero\'s welcome, says feeling yet to sink in
Deccan ChronicleNew Delhi: The feeling has not yet sunk in, said India's first badminton world champion PV Sindhu on Tuesday after she was given an exuberant welcome on her return to the country which included a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister posted pictures of the meeting on his personal Twitter page and described the affable player as "India's pride". "It hasn't yet sunk in and we didn't get much time to celebrate because I had to come back early after the match and then next day take a flight back to India," she said. Also present during their interactions with Rijiju and Modi were BAI president Himanta Biswa Sarma, Kim Ji-Hyun and Sindhu's father P V Ramana, a former bronze medallist in volleyball at the 1986 Asian Games.