Category: Dil Bahra Column
We are happy to present the SEVENTH and the LAST of the DIL BAHRA’s signature column on early Indian hockey history. The author has won our hearts for pioneering such a painstaking effort, sparing it ...
PART V: The Indian Army hockey tour of New Zealand 1926 By DILJIT SINGH BAHRA Field Marshall William Riddell Birdwood, Commander in Chief in India (1925–1930), who had commanded the Australian and New Zealand Army ...
Why was Jaipal Singh, not living in India at the time, selected to lead India’s Olympic hockey challenge in 1928? What were his credentials that prompted the Indian authorities to look up to him for ...
DIL BAHRA: “I first met Balbir Singh Senior at the Champions Trophy in Amstelveen, Netherlands in 1982. I was with a group who had earlier gone to the Bombay World Cup in that year. Whilst ...
By DILJIT SINGH BAHRA The Indian army’s hockey teams have been prominent on the national scene as far as one can remember, be it the National Championship or a plethora of All India tournaments where ...
By DILJIT SINGH BAHRA INDIA, for many, is a hockey nation. However, it is difficult to say exactly when field hockey was first introduced there but it could conclusively be said that it was going ...
It’s perhaps only a myth but it says much about the magical skills of Dhyan Chand, acclaimed as the best hockey player in history. A statue of ‘The Wizard’ in Vienna Austria, the story goes, depicted ...
It was a long mystery. Scarcely anybody knew of Col Bruce Turnbull, the first President of the newly formed Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). The formation of the IHF took place 95 years ago and was ...
I recall very clearly when researching Sikhs in the Olympic Games back in 2005, I was informed by Pat Rowley, a renowned journalist and a good friend of mine, that Joe was the oldest living ...
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