KOCHI: Skating is more than just a hobby for the children of Kovalam skate club that operates under Sebastian Indian Social Projects (SISP), Kovalam. Joshan J, Mini J, Rahul R, and Vidya Das, the four ...

Atita Verghese is one of India’s very few pro skateboarders and she wants more girls to join her on the open road Atita Verghese discovered skateboarding by chance on a gap year between school and ...

A community of women in Kovalam, a small coastal town in the southern Indian state of Kerala, is pushing the boundaries that Indian society sets for women and girls. Led by India’s first female ...

The SISP Kovalam Skate Club is located in Kovalam, India and was founded in 2013 as a part of the bigger NGO SISP. With free skateboarding lessons we try to motivate the school drop-outs of the area ...

Thiruvananthapuram: Nine months ago, Poojappura resident Rubin Shah received a gift that introduced him to the world of skateboarding. Soon, Shah – who runs a hair and makeup studio at Poojappura ...

It was in June, earlier this year, that roughly 150 skateboarders converged at MG Road for the Go Skateboarding Day. Leading the charge was the confident and striking 22-year old Atita Verghese, who ...

Skateboarding is the hot new fun sport that has captured the imagination of India’s urban young, says Aarti Dua It’s a Sunday afternoon and Russell Lopez, 30, is on a roll — literally. “It’s ...

It was in June, earlier this year, that roughly 150 skateboarders converged in Bengaluru for the Go Skateboarding Day. Leading the charge was 22-year old Atita Verghese, who is widely known as the ...

In Manjari Makijany’s directorial debut feature film Skater Girl, a teenage tribal girl in Rajasthan discovers skateboarding after a British-Indian girl introduces the sport in a village. Not only ...