Category: Book Reviews

Suresh Kalmadi and Randhir Singh released the ‘Olympics: the India Story’, jointly written by Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta on Monday, the 21st July 2008 in New Delhi. The release was followed by a lively ...

Balbir Singh Senior has a gift of gab. The triple Olympic gold medalist is bestowed with silver tongue to an extent not many hockey stars of past and present generations can be compared to him. ...

Prime minister Manmohan Singh meant to cast no aspersions on cricket when he revealed he was no devotee of the game. He was only voicing the feelings of millions of people, the ‘aam admis’, as ...

‘Whenever he wants to irritates his wife, he wears that tie” Thus started MS Gill his speech in the presence of author Balbir Singh Sr., and Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. New Sports minister MS Gill ...

Prime Miniter of India, Dr. Man Mohan Singh released the ‘Golden Yardstick: In quest of hockey excellence’, written by the 84-year old Padamshree Balbir Singh, affectionately called Balbir Sr., here in New Delhi at his ...

June 1, 2008: Balbir Singh Sr.’s training manual Golden Yardstick: In quest of Hockey Excellence’ will be released by the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh tomorrow 16.30 hours at his residence in New ...

I wanted to have the list of international hockey players of New Zealand. When I queried about it with the 1976 Olympics hockey gold medallist Ramesh Patel, now the chief executive of the New Zealand ...

VISION WITH A MISSION: Rare are hockey books. Rarer are the ones with a historical bent of mind. Despite field hockey being a mass sport in South Asian region and often its lone medal earner ...

Trevor Vanderput has put down his vast experience of hockey in his masterpiece, “Dhyanchand to Charlesworth: Hockey’s odessey Hockey is infectious. Once in touch the sport catches you and becomes lifetime companion. Personal life might ...

I may be late, but only of late I had a chance to read and enjoy ‘World Cup Hockey `98’. The 128-page volume is an album of eye-catching images of author-cum-lensman Jeroen van Bergen, who ...