Wrestling with patriarchy
Business Standard|November 27, 2024
Sakshi Malik's book begins with a tickle, but it's not funny. The wrestler is trying to resist the police from pushing her into a bus. The men and women in khaki are there to detain the wrestlers and their supporters who have been protesting against the Wrestling Federation of India and its president, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, and they are having a tough time getting Malik to comply. She is, after all, an Olympian, in fact, India's only female Olympic medalist in wrestling.
VEENU SANDHU
Wrestling with patriarchy

Sakshi Malik's book begins with a tickle, but it's not funny. The wrestler is trying to resist the police from pushing her into a bus. The men and women in khaki are there to detain the wrestlers and their supporters who have been protesting against the Wrestling Federation of India and its president, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, and they are having a tough time getting Malik to comply. She is, after all, an Olympian, in fact, India's only female Olympic medalist in wrestling. It's not easy to get her to budge or loosen her grip once she is in position. And then someone yells, "Tickle her!" - a move that takes the strength out of her, giving the policewomen the opportunity to bundle her into the bus.

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