Jwala Gutta is a left-handed Indian badminton player of mixed Indian and
Chinese descent who has won the National Badminton Championships
thirteen times until 2010. She is a doubles badminton player who has
partnered with Shruti Kurien and later Ashwini Ponnappa. She was the
wife of Chetan Anand, an Arjuna Awardee; however, the two divorced in
2011.
Jwala was born on 7 September 1983 in Wardha, Maharashtra and brought up
in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, to a Telugu Indian father and a
Chinese mother. Jwala's father, Kranti Gutta, hailed from a family of
freedom fighters and Leftists. Her mother, Yelan Gutta, was born in
Tianjin, and is a granddaughter of a Gandhian named Tseng. Yelan first
came to India in 1977 with her grandfather to visit the Sevagram ashram,
where she translated Gandhi's autobiography and other works into
Chinese language.
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