About the Book: Enter the Dangal: Travels through Indias Wrestling Landscape
When Im on the mat, Im so filled with this awareness that the slightest touch
feels like electricity to my body, and my body reacts to that the same way it
would have reacted if I touched a livewire.
Wrestling, kushti, rules the farmlands, as it has for centuries. It had pride of
place in the courts of Chalukya kings and Mughal emperors. It was embraced by
Hinduism and its epics, and has led its own untroubled revolution against the
caste system. The British loved it when they first came to India, then rejected
it