A hockey game for fun and not goals!

A couple of years ago, a Lagaan type cricket match was a highlight of the Pushkar Fair, which attracts a large number of tourists from abroad. This time around, it was a Chak De hockey match between a team from the Rajasthan women’s hockey academy and a side picked from visiting tourists. Like the Lagaan match, the Chak De game was also watched by a cheering crowd of several thousand. For all the discreet appeals of district collector Naveen Mahajan to the home team to not go all out on the guests, the Rajasthan academy girls proved too good for the visiting European ladies, who, by the way, were not total strangers to the game. Lets not bother about the final result. It was a game in which fun and not goals that mattered.