I realized that the game is not about winning or losing, I just felt an urge to take part,” he adds. “After continuous requests from the open game federation, I decided to take part and self-trained for the championship. The authorities in my college were unaware that I would be taking part in the championship, until I got through the South Asian Tournament and qualified for the finals,” said Kowshik. “I did not take part in the first two world championships since I did not have anyone to guide or train me here in Chennai. However, he humbly avers, “I never imagined I would be the world champion, beating all the other players out there.” Self-trained championįor taking part in the world-level tournament, a player has to first qualify through the district, state, national and South Asian levels. This was the first time that Kowshik contended in the world-level championship and came out on top, outperforming competitors from Israel, Thailand, China. Citizen Matters caught up with him in the vast campus of CEG to find out more about his passion and the route to the top. Kowshik moved to Chennai three years ago to pursue undergraduation in Bio-mining at the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG). “Silambam is inseparable from me - I swing whenever I’m overwhelmed and also when I’m gloomy it completes me,” says Kowshik Palanisamy who won the third World Silambam Championships held in China on February 20, 2018.

Slaying with SIlambam: Kowshik Palanisamy, the World Silambam Champion performs for the annual CEG's Techofes cultural fest.

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