The girls put aside friendships for one thing only: bouts. “There are no friends on the mat,” said Siksha. But as soon as the match is over, “everything is back to normal.”

and subsequently three of my sisters followed me. Now four of us are here training together.”

The girls begin each day at 5 a.m. with an hour-long warm-up, starting with a jog and settling into targeted stretches: toe touches, hamstring swipes, windmill arms, curtsy lunges.

Started in 2017, Yudhveer Akhada is a residential wrestling academy for girls, run by a family of competitive wrestlers in Sonipat, a semi-urban industrial town in Haryana, a province in northern India bordering Delhi.

As the winter sun ascends over a mustard farm, pale orange bleeding into sharp yellow, a line of 36 girls all dressed alike — T-shirts, track pants, crew cuts — emerges into an open field, rubbing sleep from their eyes.

“And sometimes, what we buy doesn’t always make sense. We have to figure out how to style it. We're like, ‘It’s going to make sense one day.’”

There’s a thrill to that hunt, Blessing explained. “You have to explore the market to get what you really want,”

If you’re lucky, you might find a vintage jacket you’ve been searching for, or a pair of long-lasting Levi’s jeans. But you’re never going to be as lucky as Dencity: the coolest of the cool kids of Lagos.

At the bustling Yaba Market in Lagos, Nigeria, there is something for everyone.

Now important person, very hard to inviting him. Chinese way,came only to show respect, don't stay for dinner. Respect for making big celebration, he shows up. Meangives lots of respect. Chinese custom. Chinese social life that way. If too important won't have to stay toolong. He come to my wedding. I didn't see, I heard it. I gone to boy's side, they have YMCA dinner.Chinese age I was nineteen.