Driven by dreams of winning medals for their country, two dozen girls and young women train to become wrestlers.
Girls wrestle during a bout, in the training room at the Altius wrestling school in Sisai, Haryana, India, July 10, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree FadnavisOct. 5, 2023, 3:17 p.m. GMTDriven by dreams of winning medals for their country, two dozen girls and young women train to become wrestlers in a cluster of white one-story buildings set on a dusty track winding through farmland on the edge of a north Indian village.
Whether or not they become champions, the girls from humble families receive rare lessons in female empowerment during their training at the residential centre Sharma set up in 2009, along with her husband, Sanjay Sihag, a sports teacher. In the nearby fields, village women, covered from head to toe, graze cattle. Some of the students could have shared that destiny, but for the chance of a different life that the school has given them.
State government funding covers training, while parents pay about 9,100 rupees a month for board and academic tuition, which is provided by a school next-door. They use a stone grinder to make a groundnut paste that is mixed with milk and strained through muslin for a “protein drink.” Pictures of the students and their loved ones hang on the wall next to their beds, at the hostel in Sisai, Haryana, India, July 9, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree FadnavisBut a new generation of women was inspired by the triumph of Geeta Phogat, who became the first female Indian wrestler to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in 2010.
Sonu Kaliraman , 27, who is a wrestler and coaches at Altius, holds her sister’s medals, Neelam Kaliraman, 21, a student at the school, at their home in Sisai, Haryana, India, July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis “We have progressed a little and we will keep progressing further,” said Kaliraman, seated on a bed in her village home, as her proud mother tenderly stroked her head.
“When a woman has to stand up against a strong power then she has to put a lot of things at stake, her career, her life,” Sharma said, commenting on the controversy. Aayush, 15, one of the three male students in the school, lifts weights and exercises during morning fitness and practice session on the school playground in Sisai, Haryana, India, July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
Students head towards the wrestling school for a practice session, in Sisai, Haryana, India, July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Anjali , 13, Naitik Rana, 15, and Swati Berwal , 16, prepare breakfast at the school in Sisai, Haryana, India, July 10, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
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