The Hindu·3 min read·easy
Where football is freedom: A Kolkata mixed-gender team is rewriting rules from margins
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Shrabana Chatterjee
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A mixed-gender football team in Kolkata, run by the NGO Bondhu Collective, is challenging social taboos and gender norms in the Kalighat red-light area. The team provides underprivileged youth with a platform for freedom and self-expression through sports.
As the FIFA World Cup reaches its climax far from India, with stadiums packed and fans cheering their teams, a group of children in Kolkata is fighting a very different battle for their love of the same game. Their biggest opponents are not rival teams, but prejudice, social taboos, and the daily struggle to find a patch of ground to practise on.
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