How this social enterprise is sensitising society’s approach towards harassment

Fightback, since its inception in 2013, has not only been teaching martial art techniques to students but also vocal and mental skills that would help them take power away from perpetrators.

Anugya Ojha was 11 years old when she got to know about self-defence courses at her school. At that time, she took a three-day intensive safety training course initiated by Fightback, a self-defence training enterprise, just because it was part of her school’s extracurricular activities. Fourteen-year-old Ojha today realises how that ‘empowerment self-defence’ course she took three years ago has shaped her understanding about sexual violence.