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Meet the woman who went viral running barefoot in a sari | BBC News India
22 October 2026
This video of Kavita Mahato sprinting barefoot in a sari during a home guard recruitment trial in Jharkhand went viral recently. She completed the 1,600m run in about nine minutes. Yet the attention has brought anxiety as well as admiration. Mahato says she fears the reaction in her village if she is not selected. Those who make the cut will advance to a formal physical test. The recruitment drive ends on 5 November and will fill 284 home guard posts in Ramgarh. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 ----------------------------------- This is the o… Video by YouTube channel.