Teacher Harassment

I could not tell my family about it because I thought it was my fault said Sakshi the wrestler. My tuition teacher from my school days used to harass me. He would call me over to his place for classes at odd times and sometimes tried to touch me. I was scared to go for my tuition classes but I could never tell my mom.”

Talking about her struggles at the start of her career, Sakshi said she hated confrontations and would think of running away from her bouts at the beginning of her career.

“It’s a fear that I’ve carried to the end of my career. I’ve never enjoyed the actual act of confrontation.

“… I was an exceptionally slow starter in wrestling. I won my first bout only after nearly two years of my first stepping on a wrestling mat. It wasn’t that I didn’t have any physical skills.