Author: S. Mageshwaran
Sunday, August 24, 2008: Beyond the Beijing tally: Indian sport has begun to climb out of the barrel The current euphoria over “our best ever Olympics” is quite justified. One gold and two bronze and ...
Bangalore, Dec 15: In a significant development, ESPN STAR Sports announced that ING Vysya Life, one of India’s leading private life insurance companies, will sponsor the Bangalore team in Premier Hockey League (PHL) from 2006 ...
MAHATMA Gandhi was a man of vision. In 1932, a group of people approached Mahatma asking him to help in the fund-raising for the Indian hockey team’s participation at the Olympics. “What is hockey?” the ...
The Rise and fall of Indian hockey The Golden Beginning CALL it a bundle of sentiments or a patriot. My eyes always fill with tears at every instance the three words India, Hockey and Olympics ...
1932 Los Angeles: Now, for the first time in sporting history an Indian team was to participate on American soil. United States of America by then had become the benchmark for excellence in sport, a ...
1936 Berlin: Adolf Hitler’s stern belief of supremacy of a particular race tumbled at the Olympics he painstakingly organised in 1936. For the Indian team everything was a gain, only loss being missing of hundreds ...
HOCKEY was invented in the valleys of Persia and Egypt. But as these two civilizations began to expand the sport, like many other factors in many other walks of life, began to be pitch forked ...
Factions, feuds, cribs, complaints RECENTLY I was going through a book on Mesopotamian civilization. I wanted to find out if there indeed was as a great civilization ruling the world from Babylonia, whatever happened to ...
Riding is always a riddle in some metros. You need to think you own the road, choose your line, without caring for the other road-users. You, especially if you’re driving an auto-rickshaw or a two-wheeler, ...
THE triumph of Indian Juniors at the Asia Cup is as much a triumph of India over Pakistan (in the final) as that of experience over mere enthusiasm. Coach Harendra Singh hit the nail on ...
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