Gatka, an ancient form of martial art, is a spiritual as well as a mental and physical exercise. It represents a fine balance between the mind, body and spiritual faculties of a person. Gatka is the ...

Gatka, a traditional martial art with a prominent place in Sikh history, is played with wooden sticks also called ‘Khutka’. Gatka is a unique and inexpensive fighting art developed to defend and ...

Every evening at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Nirmal Ajit Akhada in East Vinod Nagar, boys and girls aged between 8 and 25 years, dressed in a chola (blue-coloured kurta) and a dumala (a yellow turban ...

With a view to inculcate martial art skills among women, the Punjab Gatka Association will hold a three-day Gatka training workshop for girls at the central orphanage from July 17 to 19 in association ...

Fierce and feisty, the warrior princesses of the city cross swords with one another, honing to perfection their skills in Gatka. Handling lethal weapons with razor-sharp precision, girls as young as ...

Traditional Sikh martial art 'gatka' is about to join modern sporting disciplines. From the upcoming session, Punjabi University will run a one-year diploma course in the coaching of Punjab's newest ...

Gatka is an ancient fighting technique played with wooden sticks and also called Gatka art (stick-fighting). It is an Indian martial art associated with the Sikh history. Here we speak to Harjit Singh ...

The School Games Federation of India (SGFI) has incorporated Indian martial art Gatka as a discipline in the national school games calendar 2011-12. He said that the GFI in collaboration with the ...