Meet Manipur's neurosurgeon who teaches Wushu
Manipuri neurosurgeon, Dr Amitkumar who teaches Wushu at a quiet corner in Imphal East district, an extraordinary task to promote the game in the state.
Driven by his deep childhood attachment with the game, Amitkumar cannot leave this electrifying Chinese martial art to date.
The bottom-line of his enduring tendency is he imparts the training to around 50 children.
Amitkumar, who achieved best player titles, bagging hordes of laurels in several national Wushu championships, is the first Indian to score above 9:00 points (9:20) in International Wushu competition at 3rd World Wushu Championships at Baltimore, USA in 1995, a record he maintained till 2011.
A resident of Brahmapur Nahabam Bamon Leikai in Imphal East, Amitkumar is a consultant neurosurgeon at the nearby state-run Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) in Imphal East. After his day’s medic work at the hospital, he puts on his tracksuit, moves directly to the Wangkhei area where he trains around the children, including girls, at a community hall before moving to his residence in the evening.
Amitkumar, who checks and treats patients in the morning, has been imparting Wushu lessons to children in the state from time to time since 1991.
“Medical is my profession and Wushu is my passion and way of life as I have been associated with the game since I was in standard three.
I will continue to play and train Wushu till my health permits,” a soft-spoken Amitkumar said on Tuesday.
What is amazing in his Wushu journey is Amitkumar learnt the beautiful game from his father Mayanglambam Biramani Singh, a Wushu exponent who has a short age gap of just 20 years between the father-son duo. As his younger brother Sachidananda Mayanglambam and their
