School Hockey: Ryan Intnl School on hockey rein
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It is a Ryan’s mission to develop a student with Knowledge, Attitude, Skills, Social and Moral Values to make them a complete citizen of the country. The school envisages development of student’s physical and psychological capabilities / talents through professional training in sports, artistic and personality enhancement programs. With this mission, the Ryan has completed four years in Amritsar under the visionary benevolence of its Chairman Dr. Augustine Francis Pinto and Managing Director Mrs. Grace Pinto. The school, situated on G.T. Road, Bypass near the Amritsar Entrance Gate, sports modern infrastructure, sprawling grounds and well qualified and experienced staff. With everything on board, the school is scaling new heights every passing year.
The Principal Mrs Gurpal Anand believes in holistic development of students. She not only emphasizes teaching with innovative activities but desires that a child should be a good sportsman as well. Her reason: “What a child can’t learn sometimes in classrooms, can understand on playgrounds, especially the virtues of discipline, team work and competitive spirit”. There is therefore no surprise Mrs.Anand introduces new sports and games in school time to time.
Being an ardent hockey fan, Principle Mrs Gurpal Anand wanted to revive our national game so that it can regain its past glory. And the small step taken in this direction was that the students were introduced to Prof. Randhawa of DAV College in the same city. Randhawa is a noted columnist, on the mission to motivate the students across the country to play hockey.
While addressing the students in the morning assembly he said that it is not an old story but the story of 1975 when the dignity and popularity of hockey was at its peak on the soil of Punjab. On one hand the players used to play hockey very enthusiastically and with keen interest on the grassy play grounds, on the other hand there was no lack of spectators who were very loving and affectionate towards hockey. It was so popular in villages, towns and cities and especially in the villages at least one member of every family used to play hockey. It was considered to be the game that compelled the players to undergo severe exercises and be fit and fine. The hockey stick and hockey ball could be seen in a corner of every home. The hockey lovers use to carry them to the play grounds either in the mornings or the evenings. The whole day they were lost in the thoughts and dreams of hockey. A wave of joy was always there in their hearts.
The hockey enthusiast Prof.Randhawa recollected the olden days and said that there were a few warriors of hockey who never went to any school and college, who were not familiar with ABC but they were the most intelligent students of the class of hockey in the play ground. In spite of being illiterate, they earned respect in the name of hockey. Even schools and colleges demonstrated there keen interest for the national sport. A single P.T. master was efficient enough to create mighty hockey teams in the past. The hockey tournaments were in full swing at various levels in t grounds, on the other hand there was no lack of spectators who were very loving and affectionate towards hockey. It was so popular in villages, towns and cities and especially in the villages at least one member of every family used to play hockey. It was considered to be the game that compelled the players to undergo severe exercises and be fit and fine. The hockey stick and hockey ball could be seen in a corner of every home. The hockey lovers use to carry them to the play grounds either in the mornings or the evenings. The whole day they were lost in the thoughts and dreams of hockey. A wave of joy was always there in their hearts
The hockey enthusiast Prof. Randhawa remembered the olden days and said that there were a few warriors of hockey who never went to any school and college, who were not familiar with ABC but they were the most intelligent students of the class of hockey in the play ground. In spite of being illiterate, they earned respect in the name of hockey. Even schools and colleges demonstrated there keen interest in this national sport. A single P.T. master was efficient enough to create mighty hockey teams. The hockey tournaments were in full swing at various levels in the educational institutions in those days .
Prof. Randhawa further remembering the golden days of Indian hockey said that tere was a romantic relationship between the hockey world and the Bollywood. The hockey stars used to gather to watch the popular and the superb movies of the famous film stars similarly the film stars used to reach the play ground to watch the tournaments of the popular game hockey. But the problem they had to face was to sit secretly on one side of the play ground avoiding the glances of their fans to enjoy the dynamic, daring and beautiful performance of the hockey players. The Aga Khan hockey tournament, which was held in Mumbai, used to attract crowds of film stars. The film stars like Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Raj Khosla, Om Parkash, Manoj Kumar, Dharminder, Jatinder, Ranjit, Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Shashi Kapoor, Dara Singh and especially the film stars of the Punjabi movies were the great fans of hockey. It is true that film stars of India and the other countries of the world have always been associated with the world of sports and the world of glamour.so was the case with hockey.
The orator of the day reminded the gathering during those days, in one of the stadiums of Mumbai, the film stars hounoured the hockey team that had won the world Cup(1975) under the captaincy of Ajit pal Singh. It was a beautiful and graceful effort on the part of the film stars to honour the winning hockey stars of our National Game with respect, devotion and dedication.
The hockey buff Prof. Randhawa remarked that the interesting aspect was that a friendly match was played between the film stars and the champion hockey stars. Almost forty thousand spectators graced the play ground with their benign presence. This match was highly romantic as the film stars are often closer to our hearts. On the other hand, the hockey stars too had gained intimacy and closeness to the hearts of the people on account of their best and dynamic performance. The hockey stars under the leadership of Ajitpal Singh and film stars under the captaincy of Raj Kapoor had played this special match. There was strange kind of thrill and excitement in their leadership and the whole atmosphere of the play ground was charged with romance of hockey. How was the art and skill of playing hockey by the famous hockey star Gobinda appreciated and praised. How the people clapped and clapped for the performance of Aslam Sher Khan, Harcharan Singh, Ashok Diwan, Surjit Singh, Varinder Singh, Onkar Singh, Mohinder Singh and H.Chimni.
The hockey enthusiast professor said that the people got up and shouted at their highest pitch again and again to cheer up their hockey stars like M.Kundo, V.J.Phillips, S.R.Pawar and Ashok Kumar etc. Remembering them the hockey lovers heave deep sighs even today. Such romantic display on the part of our hockey players was an evidence to the fact how during those days people had love for their national game hockey. The film stars were great hockey lovers. The fact remains wherever the film stars went, they enhanced the grace and beauty of that field. Once the film stars and the hockey stars were very intimately associated with each other. Such was the atmosphere of the world of films and world of hockey during those days. The world champion of wrestling Dara Singh, who later on got famous as a film star, had once said, ” Hockey is the only game of India which fills me with great zeal and enthusiasm.”
The hockey missionary expressed his regrets over the fact that our modern youth is not familiar with their national game. It is because of its neglect on the part of media. This is the very reason that our film stars have created a distance from it in the modern times. The foreigner game cricket has replaced our national game hockey. The fact is that the Indian mentality these days is being dominated by the alien game cricket and there is no nationality left in them. The modern film star are not aware of the contribution of Hockey to India in the field of sports. The truth is that the craze for cricket is simply because of its commercialization and marketing., said the Amritsar based writer
We often find the scenes from the field of cricket in our movies but there are no scenes from the field of Hockey. But we can’t close our eyes to the fact that Hockey is the sport that has made India famous in the field of sports and games at the international level. But today it is being given step motherly treatment, it is treated as a stranger in its on motherland. He quoted Mr. Gurbaksh Singh –former national hockey OLYMPIAN who was forced to say ,”Why has this nation turned antagonistic to its own traditional game?”
The worthy writer is of the opinion that HIS pen, devoted to Hockey, won’t hesitate in saying that the Govt. and the Media of our country have not only distanced Hockey from the common people, they have also distanced it even from the film stars. Day by day this gap is increasing from those film stars who were once crazy after Hockey. The film stars are still very fortunate, rolling in money and they have associated themselves with the cricketers who are already millionaires but the Hockey stars are facing misfortune and ill-luck on account of the craze of media & people for cricket and on the other hand the indifference of the Govt. to Hockey. The poor performance of the Hockey players added fuel to fire
Prof. Randhawa conducted two-hour workshop in school premises on hockey through which he motivated students to play hockey and demonstrated finer points of the game which the participants took up keenly The Principal Mrs.Anand assured Randhawa that as the school has all the infrastructure, facilities and environment for hockey, soon the two hockey teams – of boys and girls would soon come up with encouraging results. At the end of the workshop the atmosphere was so charged with enthusiasm for hockey and the sky was filled with the shouts of “CHEK DE HOCKEY”.
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GOOD .SIR RANDHAWA INSPIRED RYAN INTERNATIONAL TOO. CUTE KIDS WITH HOCKEY STICKS -BEAUTIFUL !! – REETI SHARMA
I DO HOPE SUCH TYPE OF LECTURE DOES MOTIVATE STUDENS AS WELL TEACHERS .BEST WISHES FOR HOCKEY PLAYERS OF RYAN INTERNATIONAL . SARDAR KHAN
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VERY SURPRISING IN THESE DAYS A COLLEGE TEACHER IS MAKING SUCH TYPE OF EFFORTS .WE SHOULD ALL COOPERATE WITH HIM .DEAR VISITORS ! HE IS VERY MUCH RIGHT THERE WAS A TIME WHEN FILM STARS WERE VERY FOND OF HOCKEY .AND TRUE ALSO THERE WAS A GREAT FAN FOLLOWING OF HOCKEY IN THE PUNJAB ALSO .A SUPERB LECTURE INDEED .THANKS .WE ARE WITH hockey –
A SUGGESTION** RYAN SCHOOL SHOULD ALSO START A HOCKEY TOURNAMENT (YEARLY )IN WHICH ALL RYAN SCHOOLS SHOULD PARTICIPATE .RYAN TROPHY SHOULD GO TO THE CHAMPION .
I READ THE STATEMENTS OF HOCKEY OLYMPIANS IN THE NEWSPAPERS .THEY SIMPLY CRICIZE THE HOCKEY FEDERATION >MEDIA> GOVT .THEY DO NOTHING .MR. RANDHAWA SHOULD ALSO ADDRESS THEM AND TELL THEM HOW THE THINGS ARE DONE FOR THE SAKE OF HOCKEY .HOCKEY IS SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE VETERANS STILL THEY WANT TO BE CHAIRPERSON IN THE HOCKEY FEDERATION .FIRST OF ALL THEY SHOULD WORK LIKE MR .RANDHAWA OF D A V COLLEGE AMRITSAR .GO TO SCHOOLS GO TO SCHOOLS WHERE THERE IS NO HOCKEY .O K SIR =*RAJINDER A HOCKEY LOVER
prof randhawa is a great lover n admirer f hockey.
Now Almost every school in Amritsar has taken up hockey and making teams.Now its time for us(youngsters) to step forward to make it more popular in other sections of our society….we need to take certain measures to promote hockey all over india….amritsar has done its job now time for other cities…its time to make hockey more stronger,powerful…we should go to colleges and universities to tell them that our schools are putting efforts, making teams why not colleges….thus,now Hockey should be promoted at higher level also so that students after completing school level,when they go to colgs they can carry on with it..
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Amritsar is a city of Golden Temple & Durgiana Mandir. Let’s join hand to make it a city known for hockey.
Er. Naveen K Narula
BEING A GREAT FAN OF HOCKEY I APPEAL ALL STUDENTS DO SUPPORT IT BT EVERY POSSIBLE WAY.
if amritsar is doing that much for hockey. why not the whole of punjab took steps for promoting hockey in punjab to the higher level.we all are with PROF. RANDHAWA DAV. COLEGE.AMRITSAR CHAK DE INDIA
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Off and On and so that we encourage the school’s which introduce hockey for the first time . Amritsar will prove with the effort of PROF RANDHAWA that a single man can move or shake the world we are all with the stick2hocky.com efforts to revive hocky.
CUM ON INDIANS WID THE EFFORTS OF PROF. RANDHAWA RAISE HOCKEY TO THE GREAT EXTENT IN THE YEAR 2009 AND GIVE IT THE RESPECT AND POSITION IT SHOULD GET BEING THE NATIONAL GAME….. CHAK DE HOCKEY INDIA
Cum on indians in 2009 with the efforts of prof. randhawa raie hockey to the extent that no game has expected before and give hokey the respect ad position it should get
cum on indians lets raise hockey to tat extent that no game has expected before wid prof. randhawa….. chak de hockey india
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I THINK RYAN INTERNATIONAL HAD DONE A FANTASTIC JOB IN PROMOTING HOCKEY…EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THE SAME SPIRIT LIKE THIS SCHOOL WHICH IS DOING AN AWESUM JOB FOR THE SAKE OF HOCKEY….LETS JOIN HANDS TOGETHER FOR OUR NATIONAL GAME HOCKEY….CHAK DE HOCKEY…
Ryan public schools are one of the biggest chain schools in India.So,these schools can bring some change in mental attitude of people in field of sports and can help Hockey to get back its position which has been occupied by other Foreign sports but all these changes can be brought only with help of young blood (i.e)Stundents.So stundents help hockey to get back it’s position..
The sixteen girls with super star SRK khan really enjoyed hockey ,so all other girls can enjoyed the same taste when they play hockey.
my best wishes are there wid amritsar and rayan public to promote hockey…..best of luck and chak de hockey
best of luck 2 all of u. keep it up.