She’s strong, she’s smart and she rides the motorcycle like a dream. Meet Captain Shikha Surabhi.
She’ll be leading from the front, the only woman in the pack, when the Indian army’s Daredevils ride at the Republic Day parade. She spoke to SheThePeople about her journey into the all-male club.
She’ll be leading from the front, the only woman in the pack, when the Indian army’s Daredevils ride at the Republic Day parade. She spoke to SheThePeople about her journey into the all-male club.
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01:00So the training is similar.
01:09I will say that only the some of the other standards like they are different but we have
01:15to go with the 5KM, run with the rifle, which is called again we have to go 2.5KM, the camps
01:24and all, everything it is similar.
01:26Training is really tough but it is a pleasure like going with the training and going into
01:31that hard work and I lost like 15 to 20 kg of weight in that training thing.
01:36So it is hard.
01:37Since my childhood I didn't wanted to actually be in armed forces.
01:55I am from a very small place.
01:57I am from Bihar and my parents right now they are settled in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
02:02My mother is a sports teacher and I would like to say she has been a motivation for
02:06me for each and everything and my dad I think his philosophy has motivated me to do for
02:12the nation.
02:17We are really thankful to the Indian Army that they are accepting us in each and every
02:26field.
02:27They are accepting us like they have made me participate, the Corps of Signals has made
02:31me participate in this.
02:32They have accepted here in the fighter pilots, Air Force has accepted and I would say that
02:39yes our male counterparts are always all together with us.
02:43They are supporting us and we are also in hands on hand with our male counterparts.
02:47There is no such difference as of now and everything like slowly the whole nation is
02:53motivating the girls to study so it is like well acceptable to the nation.