Normally print media’s sports writers place themselves morally above their counterparts in the television domain. This is despite the fact that most of the screen people migrate from the print. One of the reasons why ...
On a day hockey was least expected on the television screen, coach Joaquim Carvalho’s perfect arrow struck the bull’s eye, and thus came enormous screen space for hockey. On a day the victorious twenty20 cricket ...
In the recent times, Indian sports persons have won three titles. It all started with Indian footballers defeating Syria in the revived Nehru International Cup. Then came Joaquim Carvalho’s daredevils who easily won the Asia ...
Kasandi. A dusty, nondescript village, about 60 km from Delhi, came alive on Sunday, the 23rd September, 2007, with a match between two hockey centre teams, to mark the occasion of forming the Hockey Centre ...
That the Karnataka State Hockey Association is the shining example of how a State Hockey Association, or for that matter any sports bodies, should function is a well-known fact. The vibrant body is almost on ...
Last Month Delhi based Hindustan Times serialized what it called ‘HT’s Hockey Campaign’. s2h editor K. Arumugam wrote the first of the six-part Series. The article is reproduced for the benefit of s2h readers. The ...
Indian women lost five of their six matches by a single goal margin at the recent World Cup in Spain. The perennial thorn in the Indian flesh, South Korea, was the lone team to outplay ...
Last Month Delhi based Hindustan Times serialized what it called ‘HT’s Hockey Campaign’. s2h editor K. Arumugam wrote the first of the six-part Series. The article is reproduced for the benefit of s2h readers. The ...
Olympian Joaquim Carvalho was appointed as the Chief Coach of the national team in March 2007. His first international assignment has been Sultan Azlan Shah Cup held at Ipoh, Malaysia. The performance of India in ...
In order to introduce my books to Jaideep Sahni, the script writer of famous film Chak de! India, I called him over phone up on Saturday night. To my pleasant surprise, he recognized me and ...