Times Entertainment At six, Ludhiana girl Sarah Sangar held a difficult seated wide-legged yoga pose on a raised gymnastics balance beam for

Eighteen minutes, twenty seconds without losing the pose

What makes the seated wide-legged pose challenging?

A young achiever from Ludhiana joins the record books

More than just flexibility

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