street performers

Pune's 'Warrior Aaji', 86-year-old Shanta Balu Pawar is a street performer, a martial arts trainer and the sole breadwinner of her 20-member family.

73 YO Syed Dastageer, popularly known as 'Magic Babu' performs regularly outside the Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel. His magic tricks range from simple card tricks, to complicated ones which involve him consuming fire.

In fact, their efforts were instrumental in rescuing a teenage girl who was smuggled to India, married off at the age of 10, and gang-raped by the man and his brothers.