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Boxing Calcutta

17 images Created 6 Mar 2014

India's first muslim woman boxing referee
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  • Razia Shabnam (in dark blue) conducts a training session in Biyam Samiti park with children from the area of Kidderpore, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam assists a child with sit-ups while she conducts a training session in Biyam Samiti park with children from the area of Kidderpore, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (unseen) conducts a training session in Biyam Samiti park with children from the area of Kidderpore, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in dark blue) conducts a training session in Biyam Samiti park with children from the area of Kidderpore, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in blue) feeds her son as he watches cartoons at home in Ekbalpore, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in blue) is constantly on the phone organising the upcoming boxing competition while at home in Ekbalpore, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam's many accolades decorate her fridge and home in Ekbalpore, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in blue) reaches home through the alleyways of Ekbalpore after she picks her son, Saihaan, up from the St. Thomas School in Kidderpur after finishing her boxing training sessions in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in blue) conducts a boxing training session with a group of girls from an NGO in a park in Basduni, Tolly Gunge, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in blue) conducts a boxing training session with a group of girls from an NGO in a park in Basduni, Tolly Gunge, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in orange) waits for a taxi outside her apartment block with her son Saihaan, in Kidderpore, Calcutta, West Bengal, India as she leaves to referee an all-India invitational boxing competition in the neighbouring town of Burnpur. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in orange) shares a chai (tea) with her son Saihaan, while on a train to referee an all-India invitational boxing competition in the neighbouring town of Burnpur, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam's record book of assignments as a referee / judge filled to the brim. She checks her documents as she arrives to referee an all-India invitational boxing competition in the neighbouring town of Burnpur, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam hands the referee her score sheet as she judges a bout at an all-India invitational boxing competition in the neighbouring town of Burnpur, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam referees a bout at an all-India invitational boxing competition in the neighbouring town of Burnpur, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Saihaan, Razia's son, spends a few minutes next to Razia Shabnam while she judges a bout at an all-India invitational boxing competition in the neighbouring town of Burnpur, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Razia Shabnam (in orange) waits for her colleagues to pick her up at the train station with her son Saihaan, to referee an all-India invitational boxing competition in the neighbouring town of Burnpur, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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