The Indian female wrestlers breaking taboos and making history - News Summed Up

The Indian female wrestlers breaking taboos and making history


"People would say wrestling is not a woman's sport, if you break your limbs, who will marry you?" Characteristics that are unheard of among village women in Haryana. Unrelenting criticismNever before have three Indian female wrestlers qualified for the Olympics. "Most people in Haryana are still very biased against women," Mahavir Singh Phogat explains. But three Olympian wrestlers all from the same area of Haryana -- widely considered India's most patriarchal state -- and two of them related?


Source: CNN July 28, 2016 06:00 UTC



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