Shantabai Pawar’s, Ancient Marshal Arts of India, Stick Fighting Skills in Pune Goes Viral

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Pune: An 85 year old woman from Pune in Maharashtra, a video of her displaying exemplary stick-fighting skills on the streets went viral on social media on Friday. This ancient Marshal Art skills in India, which played by the old woman is getting praise from all quarters and help amid the crippling Covid-19 lockdown.

Shantabai Pawar was showing her stick-fighting skills on the streets of the city during lockdown to earn money for her family, which includes orphaned children she has taken under her care. Shantabai pover’s stick fighting skills fetched but several people came forward to help her with supplying ration and monetary help.

Among the people who come forward to help her among them film actor Ritesh Deshmukh, described her as “Warrior Aaji” on a micro-blogging site and contacted her. The old woman said she had been learning stick fighting since the age of eight, and would travel to different places to display it, but the times of fate were distressing as the lockdown had brought everything to a standstill.

She said that “Stores stopped giving me grocery. Since it was impossible to make ends meet in a large family that includes several small children, I decided to display my stick-fighting skill on the roads so that patrons would give money.”

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