When an 11-year-old Lalremsiami Hmarzote told her parents she wanted to leave home to take ⁠up a place at one of ⁠India’s top hockey academies, she first had to explain ⁠to them what the sport was. Less than a decade later, Lalremsiami would become the first female Olympian and the first Asian Games medallist from the northeastern state of Mizoram. Lalremsiami, who fell in love with the sport playing barefoot on dirt pitches in the Himalayan town of Kolasib, is now India’s offensive linchpin as...