Kushti

Kushti: The most ancient Pehelwani

                                         -Aachal Burande

 The style of Indian wrestling, also know as Pehlwani and the person referred as  Pehlwan. kushti, The traditional Indian wrestling take place in “Akhada“. Akhada is a place for practicing the Indian wrestling, in other words the school of wrestling.

          
In Indian wrestling physical training means to build strength and develop muscle.There are some specific exercises that wrestler should do on daily basis, Surya Namaskara, shirshasan,the dand and bethak. The freestyle type of Indian wrestling is one of the most popular and traditional sport from India. Punjab is well known for its wrestlers or Pahalwan and its one of best place to learn Kushti or Indian wrestling.There are only few major place remain where the Indian wrestling is practice and the place is known as Akahra’s, for more follow the link major akahra’s in India.

  Indian wrestler or pehlwan live under some strict set of rules made by the trainer or ustad.There are very few Akhada’s are remaining in India. Some dedicated peoples are still working to keep alive The India Wrestling.This is very popular sport in India as well as in neighbor countries .India has won titles in Commonwealth Games held at jamaica.India has hosted the world wrestling championships.
             

The famous Indian wrestler, Sushil Kumar has won medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Sushil Kumar has made an history by reaching in the final of London 2012 Summer Olympics. The Indian World Champion wrestler Sushil kumar is the winner of the gold medal in the 66 kg freestyle competition at the FILA 2010.Yogeshwar Dutt another Indian wrestler has won a bronze in London Olympic Games 2012. Other good Indian male wrestlers as Amit and Narsingh are out from freestyle wrestling game of London Olympics campaign 2012.

             
           

Sakshi Malik is the first India's female wrestler to achieve a medal at the Olympics. This year she won the bronze medal in Rio in the 58 kg category.
 Jatindra Charan Goho,Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (K D Jadhav), Dara Singh are the known wrestllers in India.

 The Great Khali is The Giant wrestler from India real name Dalip Singh Rana also know as Giant Singh. Khali the great is a professional wrestler of WWE. Khali is the first Indian professional wrestler to be signed a contract by World Wrestling Entertainment. He has also appeared in three Hollywood film.
             

  Now a days bollywood also creating awareness about this games & problems faced by wrestler,ect. Dangal & sultan are the recent films. Dangal is the biopic of great female wrestlers of India Geeta & Babita Kumari Phogat.
               Kushti is famous in Maharashtra mostly in Satara & Sangali districts. Participation of girls in Kushti is the sign of 21st century. Society is being changing & accepting change.