DUBAI: Every Friday evening in Dubai's bustling Deira district, a sandy lot is transformed into the ring of champions. It is kushti wrestling night and Kala Pehlwan is ready to fight. As the sun sinks ...
reporting from KOLHAPUR, India — A shaft of light peeks through the doorway of a 100-year-old gym. Two giant men step across a stone floor worn smooth by generations of sweat and dirt, and into a pit ...
An ancient form of wrestling is dying out in India because it requires men to become celibate and avoid alcohol and tobacco. Kushti wrestlers train for twelve hours a day and the sport recruits boys ...
Mat kushti is more streamlined and recognised by the government, whereas matti kushti doesn’t have any such regulations. There have been requests made to the government to bring in some order in matti ...
Clad in a steel-grey cotton langot, the teenage Karan takes coconut oil in his palms, rubs them together, and slaps it noisily onto his flexed biceps, making them glisten against the rays of the ...
Kushti is an ancient form of wrestling practiced in India. For more than 2,000 years men known as pehlwans have wrestled in the sport, performing in a clay or dirt pit. Although the popularity of ...
Kushti, also known as pehlwani, a form of traditional wrestling contested in the sub-continent, was once a popular sport in Dhaka after having originated during the Mughal period. Not only concerned ...
The well-greased gladiators in kushti fight a losing battle each time they set foot in the stadium. Although the pehalwans oppose each other in the ring, their actual fight is against the country’s ...
Kushti is a style of mud-clay wrestling that dates to the time when Mughal emperors held sway over a vast fertile plateau in western India. In Kolhapur, a prosperous agricultural city, boys as young ...
Kushti is a sport with roots dating back 2,500 years in India. Today, wrestlers leave their hometowns as children to live and train at wrestling academies, called talims. The lifestyle at a talim is ...
The board above the school entrance says taleem (Urdu for “education”). But the first thing you see within is an image or statue of Hanuman, the deity of pehelwans here. The culture is a colourful ...
Wearing nothing but loincloths, a group of boys warm up by climbing sturdy ropes that take them high into the trees. One teenager walks around the wrestling pit swirling incense, blessing the arena ...
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