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Satish Kumar (born 9 August 1936) is an Indian British activist and speaker. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international center for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine.
About Satish. Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9, Satish renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk.
Apr 30, 2012 · Satish Kumar is an internationally renowned speaker on ecological and spiritual issues. When he was only nine years old, Satish renounced the world and joined the wandering...
Aug 1, 2021 · 📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe India's first super heavyweight boxing Olympian, Satish Kumar, was eliminated from #Tokyo2020 after going...
Jul 29, 2021 · Indian boxer Satish Kumar hammered Jamaica's Ricardo Brown 4-1 to swiftly advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympics 2021. Satish, who played his first match on Thursday after an initial...
One of their own, Satish Kumar, was boxing for India in the Tokyo Olympics. Satish Kumar, top, of India exchanges punches with Ricardo Brown of Jamaica during their men's super-heavy weight...
Mar 9, 2020 · The first super heavyweight (+91kg) Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympic Games, veteran Satish Kumar on Monday said a “secret strategy” and loads of luck has made the last couple of years the...
Jul 29, 2021 · Satish Kumar, the first Indian super heavyweight boxer at the Olympics, moved into the quarterfinals with a 4-1 win over Jamaica’s Ricardo Brown on Thursday. Satish now faces Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov, the reigning world and Asian champion, on Sunday.
Satish Kumar is the first Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics in the super heavyweight category. “One of the coaches saw me and said, ‘ah, you are well built. Why don’t you give this a shot?’” he recalled in an interview with Scroll.in. Picked for his size alone, he shrugged and decided to give it a shot.
India’s first super heavyweight boxer at the Olympics, Satish Kumar will be up against world champion Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan in the men’s +91kg quarter-final bout on Sunday. World No. 9 Satish Kumar defeated Jamaica’s Ricardo Brown by a 4:1 split decision in the round of 16 clash at the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena.
