Muskan Sheikh is a Powerlifter from the small village of Majhera, Majhera village is located in Shivpuri tehsil of Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh, India. Born in 2004, Muskan Shaikh Khan has made India proud by winning four gold medals at the open federation Commonwealth Powerlifting Championship 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand. During the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championship, Muskan Khan beat competitors in the squat (by lifting 105kgs), bench press (57.5kgs), and deadlift(120kgs), and won three gold medals. She won the fourth gold medal in overall performance. She won four gold medals in the sub-junior 63kg weight category. Muskan Khan's father Mohammad Dara Khan (who runs a poultry farm) is her first coach and always persuaded Muskan & his other daughters to pursue whatever they love. Muskan had a knack for sports since childhood, she initially used to play handball and there she alone used to make the team win. Muskan's father seeing her potential asked her to try
Pachisi, Chausar, Chopad or popularly known as Ludo is an ancient Indian game, which per some historians Mughal Emperor Akbar was addicted to and used to play with real people instead of plastic buttons or plastic statue miniatures, the game has now become a strategy game and are taught at business schools. On August 29, 1891, Alfred Collier had applied for a patent in England, claiming that a board game, which he named Royal Ludo, was his invention. Since then the game became popular worldwide by the name we know today. Later on, the British Royal Navy converted it into a board game called ‘Uckers’. According to some historians this board game of Ludo or pachisi originates in India as far back as 3300 BC. The exact origins of this legendary game though seems uncertain, but some earliest proofs of this game comes from the historic Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, where the board game was depicted in the form illustrations on the wall. This seems to suggest that Ludo was an Indian creation.