Puttur: Deviprakash represents India at Romania World Karate Championship

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Puttur, Jun 8: Deviprakash Bhandari from Puttur is representing All India Budokan Karate Federation, India in the World Union of Karate Do Federations (WUKF) World Karate Championship at Bucharest, Romania from June 5 to June 9.

He had participated in the WUKF intercontinental championships held at Delhi in November 2012 and also the National Level Championship at Vishakhapatnam in February this year and had emerged winner in both Kata and Kumite categories.

Apart from these recent competitions, he has also participated and won in several state and national-level championships in his martial arts career spanning the last 15-plus years.

Introduced to Karate at a very early age, Deviprakash has been practicing different forms of martial arts from the last 15 years under the guidance of his coach and instructor Shihan Suresh M who is the assistant chief instructor of Institute of Karate and Allied Arts (IKAA), Mangalore and is one among the senior-most instructors of the institute.

In spite of having more than 15 years of practice in Karate, Deviprakash still holds a brown belt and is yet to appear for his black belt grading which typically takes 4 to 5 years.  When asked about it, he humbly says that he still has lots to achieve in the field and his longtime dream has been to win a Grand Champion Title in a karate competition before he can consider himself eligible to receive the coveted black belt degree.

“Devi” as he is popularly known, is the son of well-known Yakshagana artiste Sridhar and Usha Bhandari from Puttur, and is currently employed with Airtel as territory manager.