'We Can Have Our Own Phogat Sisters': Inside Varanasi's Wrestling World, Where Girls Fight Boys

But in the city that Mark Twain had once described as “older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together,” the oldest akahada, believed to have been established by the writer-poet Goswami Tulsidas, best known for his version of the epic Ramayana, had kept its doors shut to women till only last year.

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