Category: Neelakantan Column

Take hockey to wider audience We Indians are delighted to have World Cup on our soils, and it comes after 27 years. Welcome World Cup 2010. It is felt the mega event will rekindle the ...

Take hockey to wider audience We Indians are delighted to have World Cup on our soils, and it comes after 27 years. Welcome World Cup 2010. It is felt the mega event will rekindle the ...

Unknown ‘Hero’ of Emerging India Indian history is least researched, more so in the case of our sport, hockey. What we know today is tip of the iceberg, one can easily conclude so. Jaipal Singh ...

‘The Stockholm syndrome’ effects seem to be telling as in the case of the IHF’s Ad Hoc Committee’s selection of the probables; Not so much as in the selection but in the manner they have ...

Dear Aslambhai, Greetings. Probably, you may not be aware of your contribution in a schoolboy’s life in 1975. Your goal that sealed the fate for India’s first and only World Cup victory in the finals ...

There is an apocryphal anecdote that sums up the sensationalism that present day media indulges in: ‘The Pope arrives in New York. He is greeted by the paparazzi. One reporter shoves a microphone literally into ...

History has a lesson for us, who endlessly mourn the Santiago fiasco. And for that we have to seek the pages of the world’s most popular of games, football — and its traditional trove Brazil ...

The state of Indian hockey insofar as its untapped market potential is, in many ways, similar to the paradoxical malaise that affected Kerala tourism in the ‘80’s’; “Tourists don’t go to Kerala because there are ...