Women empowering themselves with martial arts in Bengaluru
- Women have started enrolling them in martial art institutes in Bengaluru.
- There has actually been a significant rise in number of women joining such institutes.
FollowWomen need to learn self-defence in this country after a series of events that happened in the past and especially, the Bengaluru mass molestation case. Even Akshay Kumar posted a video in all the social media platforms where he requested women to learn how to defend themselves physically.
Therefore, women have started enrolling them in martial art institutes in Bengaluru. There has actually been a significant rise in number of women joining such institutes since the first month of 2017.
A total of 35 women joined Okinawa Shorin Ryu Shorin Kan Karate-Do Federation of India in January 2017 itself compared to 15 in December 2016.
“It’s mostly working women who are joining the classes. Parents of girl children are also making enquiries. This can be attributed to increased public awareness on rising atrocities against women and girls. Working women mainly opt for weekend or evening classes,” Suresh Kenichira, a trainer at the institute told Deccan Herald.
A women safety empowerment specialist, Franklin Joseph, stated that the enrolments at the ‘Power Self Defence’ workshops have already gone up by 30 – 40%.
The fact is other cities in India also need more of such workshops so that the women can defend themselves as and when needed. More and more people are coming up such initiatives. Nowadays even schools and colleges have started holding self-defence workshops after regular class hours.
It is this very spirit that the Asianet Newsable campaign Pinkaluru seeks to promote among women in Bengaluru, so that we soon regain the tag of #The city for women'.
