Birhor girls living in the Indian village of Chalkari are learning, as the Deccan Herald delicately put it on Saturday, how to fight “for a better life.” The paper reported that numerous girls living in the village, located in the Dhanbad District, Jharkhand State, have taken up the sport of boxing. Several sources reported nearly […]

Some Birhor young people are learning about competition through a boxing instruction program in one of their communities. The Dhanbad District Amateur Boxing Association, located in the Dhanbad district of India’s Jharkhand state, is providing instruction, gloves, head-guards, and punching bags for the student boxers in Chalkari, a Birhor village. Paritosh Kumar, the boxing coach, […]