Pune Couple Gets Special Mention From Narendra Modi For Spreading Ancient Indian Sport In US indianexpress.com

It was during a Ganesh Puja immersion procession in 1996, that Pune first saw a young man performing the gravity-defying moves of Mallakhamb on a moving truck. He was Chinmay Patankar, whose name Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled a week ago when he addressed the nation through Mann ki Baat. “Nowadays, our traditional sport of Mallakhamb is gaining popularity in several countries. In the US, when Chinmay Patankar and Pradnya Patankar started to teach Mallakhamb from their home, even they did not have an idea how successful they would be. Today, there are Mallakhamb training centres at many places in the US as the youth there are learning Mallakhamb in large numbers,” Modi said.