By Ranjit Dalvi Hockey should be developed wherever it is popular and has taken firm roots! Surprisingly India has failed to do this. This is the major reason for its downslide. With three consecutive Olympic ...
Text and Images K. Arumugam When I entered the sprawling National Stadium campus before it was renamed after the hockey wizard Dhyan Chand, it seemed I was late. The morning practice under the watchful eyes ...
By K. ARUMUGAM The year 1920 marked an important phase for Indian hockey. The Beighton Cup, the oldest trophy outside of Europe, had celebrated its silver jubilee early that year. Named after the donor of ...
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 ...
Narender Kumar Gautam, like the tireless midfielder he was in his playing days, has nurtured hockey grassroots in Sonepat, Haryana, for almost 40 years. Reflecting on his role, the former Punjab State Electricity Board player, gives ...
Indian women’s hockey, under-performing for considerable time and underrated even longer, thought to be subdued and submerged by their male counterparts, seems to have broken from the shackles. Now, they are in the forefront, talked ...
Bengaluru, 22 August 2020: On returning to the Sports Authority of India, Bengaluru Campus earlier this month, the Indian Men’s Core Probable’s Group underwent a two-week mandatory quarantine which ended earlier this week. During this period, ...
The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports has conferred annual awards to Indian sports persons and coaches. Hockey has its big share with as many as six personalities among the long list of awardees. The ...
Bengaluru, 17 August 2020: The 14-day quarantine for the Indian hockey teams come to an end Tomorrow. It means the team will start combined practice soon. The entire Core Group of players barring the six who got ...
India’s glorious hockey journey – a medal in Olympics from 1928 to 1980 except once in 1976, including eight gold – would not have started but for a friendship between two British Colonels who were ...