'Don't play kabaddi': Indian girls have dreams but face backlash

1. 'Don't play kabaddi': Indian girls have dreams but face backlash Girls may find that their current status in society and at home has not significantly Current Affairs:"Try not to play kabaddi any longer. It's anything but a decent game and it searches terrible for our khandaan [family's honour]," Farheen Chaudhari, 19, was advised by her 21-year-old sibling. For four months, Chaudhari had functioned as a guide with the Khula Aasman program of Mumbai-based non-benefit Apnalaya. The program united youths living in Govandi, one of Mumbai's biggest ghettos, to play kabaddi, and with it procure fundamental abilities and find out about sex equality, social insurance and their principal rights. Through her job as a coach, Chaudhari had seen her very own certainty develop and since her folks never questioned, her sibling's words came as a stun and a failure.

2. Before long her folks started to concur with her sibling, and advised her to quit playing. Apnalaya's social specialists and Chaudhari's companions attempted to persuade them generally, yet they didn't give in. At long last, Chaudhari enjoyed a month's reprieve from mentorship to persuade her sibling, and in the long run returned to work. "It isn't only her playing the game, families see that their little girls are getting increasingly emphatic - they are talking up and making their assessments heard," said Malathy Madathilezham, a social specialist with Apnalaya, "Coaches likewise get a stipend, so there is this feeling of trust in these young ladies that flusters male relatives as it doubts business as usual." Read More Business Standard