‘Martial arts don’t make women less feminine’: Kalaripayattu practitioner, Amrutha challenges a deep-rooted myth
Image: instagram.com/kalariwoman_amruthaet_revathi/ Kalarippayattu is Kerala’s oldest surviving martial tradition; some scholars place its origins at over two thousand years, though the art itself resists being pinned down by dates. It was never just a fighting system. It was a complete discipline. You trained in a kuzhi Kalari, a pit sunk into the earth, because the…