Dangal For Justice

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Indias’s top Olympian wrestlers, many of them from India’s sporting cradle of Haryana, hitting the street protesting against the wrestling federation chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a six time BJP MP, accusing him of sexual harassment and worse. Now, we have often been fed on stories of sports federation bosses behaving in an autocratic manner but very rarely have the athletes chosen to go public in such a dramatic manner. That they have put their careers on the line as a result should make us realize the enormity of what they have done: rebelling in any form against officials in Indian sport is fraught with risk and it takes courage to speak up.