Indian Kushti Wrestler

KOLHAPUR, INDIA - DECEMBER 13: A young Indian Kushti wrestler poses for a portrait during a traning seccion at a ìAkhadaî or wrestling schools in the town of Kolhapur in India, 13 December 2009. Kushti is an ancient version of wrestling, some 3,000 years old. It originated in India and spread out to Iran and the Middle East. It is still practiced in pockets of India but Kolhapur in Indiaís west is today the main centre of the art, where all the best fighters, trainers and ìAkhadaî or wrestling schools are to be found.