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S01E02 - "Episode 2"
Aired on Jan 28, 2022, 12:00 PM
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Dangals of Crime digs beneath the surface to explore Indian wrestling's insidious links to violence and crime, and whether the sport can repair its tarnished reputation and find a way back to its ideals of fairness and honour.
Episodes (1 Season · 2 Episodes)
E1
Episode 1
The North Indian wrestling landscape features a revered teacher-student model that has produced some of India's most famous wrestlers. But this romanticized system is punctured with murky tales of violence and ultimately a murder.
Jan 28, 2022
25 min
E2
Episode 2
Experts deconstruct the roots of the wrestling-crime nexus, the role of muscle in the crime ecosystem, what pushes wrestlers to crime and who scouts them. They also look at what systemic changes are needed to keep future wrestlers away from crime.
Jan 28, 2022
30 min
