Episode 3: How to Run Like a Rural Girl: some myth busting about girls and sport

In this Episode, we crawl our villages and small towns for girls who have pushed – and keep pushing – the boundaries of what they are meant to do or not do, and become their district’s lone award-winning sportspersons. What kind of non-conformist protein are they on? When the air cools and the dust flies in the month of Kartik in Bundelkhand, you know the wrestling matches are on. So, apparently, is the Banda Premier League. It hasn’t come to our notice because of the small coloured pamphlets lying strewn on the busy streets, or the peculiarly unspectacular hoardings. Or the distorted commentary and the thin groups of spectators, taking a break from the otherwise hectic sitting around that they