They are Aditi Jaiswal and Rimil Hembram Mandi. They are two among the three whose brilliant show helped Bengal clinch the desired gold medal in the recurve archery of the recently-concluded senior national championship held in Gujarat after 29 years. Still, their achievement has not obtained recognition except for the felicitation given by IPS, Vineet Goel the Commissioner of Police. 

Bengal archery should also be proud of Aditi as she has ensured a berth in the Indian women's recurve team for the two World Cups, the World Championship, and the Asian Games this year. 

Aditi started archery along with her elder brother in 2013. Her father Rajkumar Jaiswal is a businessman. She had also tried to get fascinated by other games like skating. Still, archery grabbed her attraction. 

The second-year student of economics honors at St. Xavier's College has attributes for the SAI coaches Rajkumar and Prakash Gangadhar as she uttered, "I was there at the SAI for around seven years till the lockdown started in 2020. I was perfectly groomed there learning the basics of the game." Commenting on her present coach at DRB-Kolkata Police Ultadanga training center, Olympian Rahul Banerjee, the archer said, "He is very flexible, understands students' psychology and under his tutelage, my technique has also developed a lot. Still, I have a long way to go." 

Aditi has already won several gold medals at the national level. Her first medal came through the bow made of bamboo. Aditi remembered, "During the lockdown, my father's business was stopped for almost two consecutive years. My father was going through an acute financial crisis during that phase. It was not possible for us to afford an imported modern recurve bow. I used to play with a bamboo bow till the 2016 Rio Olympics and after watching the Korean archers in the Rio Olympics I wanted a recurve bow. I am thankful to my school Mahadevi Birla as it has come forward, giving me the modern imported recurve bow that I am using now." 

Commenting on her mental preparation for the major upcoming competitions, Aditi divulged, "The people around me like the parents, elder brother, friends always motivate me and I gather their inspirational words to build up the ultimate motivation."

On the contrary, Rimil Hembram Mandi becomes motivated by the discouragement she received from the people around her. She stopped archery in 2016 after five years. When she returned to archery in 2021, Rimil revealed, "Many people around me had discouraging words. Somebody even asked me not to return to archery. Today, before any major competition, I think of those dispiriting words and see the faces of those people who had said all these things to get motivated. Their words increase my zeal and determination to deliver my best." 

The girl from Kulepara village, Burdwan who hails from a Santal family has a tradition of hunting animals with the help of bamboo-made bows and arrows. Rimil who has ensured a bronze medal individually along with the team-gold wearing Bengal jersey left archery even after having won several medals in the national-level competitions and represented India in the Youth World Championship due to a financial crisis. She added, "I was also coaching at that time. But I did not have a bow due to the severe financial crisis. I was not getting even a job and gradually my father was also becoming impatient. That might have been the reason he announced not to spare money to buy a modern recurve bow. I got it finally thanks to a businessman of our village who presented the bow to me." 

Today, Rimil's father Raghu Hembram is extremely happy and always inspires her to continue archery. Rimil simultaneously had attributes for her husband Shib Shankar Mandi and his family. Rimil said, "I would not have returned to archery if my husband and his family members had not heartily supported me." 

However, despite having helped Bengal to create history by winning the gold medal in the senior national championship, these two archers have become unsung heroes. They deserved the inspiration from state association or state sports ministry at least.