Packing a punch: A 27-year-old is empowering women by teaching martial arts

Abhishek Yadav holds a Limca World record for training 5,700 girls in self-defence techniques in Kunda, Pratapgarh, and Uttar Pradesh

It’s around 9:00 pm in Delhi and you’re waiting for your cab on the side of the road. You share the cab details with family/friends. You notice two men on a bike coming towards you. Staring at your phone, you secretly hope they wouldn’t notice you and move on. But, they don’t. They slow down; look at you, pass comments and eve-tease, while you helplessly wait for it to pass because you don’t want to provoke them.

This is a scenario most women all over the world, especially in India, face on a daily basis -- the problem of eve-teasing and