oday the pupils are mostly schoolchildren, aged from seven up to teenagers. The teacher is an 82-year-old woman known to all as Sword Granny. Inside her martial arts school – a large hall with walls adorned with trophies and mementoes – in Vatakara, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, the session begins with prayers and warmup exercises.
Raghavan has built a team of teachers who work alongside her at the Kadathanad Kalari Sangham school, but she has become especially renowned in this region not for her age, but for her focus and commitment to empowering the next generation of young women. Raghavan’s martial arts school was started by her late husband, Raghavan Gurukkal, in 1949. They met when she joined as a student, and after his death she took charge of his legacy. “This school is located at the same spot where my husband built it. And anyone is welcome here, we do not charge anything to our students,” she says.
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