Image caption, Daji Rajguru founded the club ... and opened what they believe was the region's first all-girls Kabaddi club. At the start, just two girls, who were pupils at the school, joined ...

Image caption, The girls in the kabaddi team train before and after school each day At the start, the teachers would pick the girls up from their homes and drop them off, but as numbers grew they ...

Story continues below this ad India is also making a pitch for yoga, along with Twenty20 cricket, kabaddi, chess, squash and kho kho ... Their jerseys have tiger skin prints and feature images of Lord ...

"Why can't girls play Kabaddi and make a career out of it?" So he and his colleagues, who had played Kabaddi when they were younger, thought it would be good to teach local girls how to play.

I want her to achieve things in life, live the best life she can, be something," says one of them, Daji Rajguru. "Why can't girls play Kabaddi and make a career out of it?" So he and his colleagues, ...

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