RINKI KNOCKS OUT PATRIARCHY

Farmer’s Daughter From Bulandshahr Has Fought Odds To Make Mark As Promising Boxer

- Sabi.Hussain

Gandhinagar: Rinki Sharma’s story is about her fight for equality in a regressive, male dominated society; it is about her desire to follow her dreams despite resistance from several quarters.

Rinki hails from a region in the western UP which isn’t known for producing boxing champions. But she decided to write her own script and is now making her mark. Her inspiring journey is similar to that of World champion Nikhat Zareen, who also fought patriarchal mindset and a state’s indifferent attitude towards boxing to become India’s No. 1 in the women’s flyweight category. Just like Nikhat told the world that boxing wasn’t all about male masculinity and that girls could also take pride in a bloody nose or cut on the cheek, Rinki has shown her detractors that boxing is not just a boys’ thing.