Category: HistoryWatch

Threesome who were part of the 1975 World Cup meet at Chandigarh In hockey India has won World up Gold Medal only once. It was at Kuala Lumpur in 1975. In Champions Trophy India has ...

India has always looked to our field hockey team to bring home the Olympic medals. But there was disappoint this time. Fortune has not favored Indian hockey 2008 Olympics as our hockey team did not ...

When I broached the subject of Roop Singh Centenary needs to be celebrated by the government of India three moths ago, MS Gill, Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, stunned me. He said: “Only in ...

Date of Birth: September 8, 1908. Place: Jubbulpore, India. Domicile: Sipri Bazar, Jhansi City, Country: India. Nationality: British subject by birth. This was how the details the identity card No. 3770, dated 25.1.1932, issued by ...

Balkrishan Singh differs from others hockey legends portrayed so far. Dhyan Chand to Md. Shahid all returned to routine life after retirement while Balkrishan continued his tryst with hockey – as a coach. He is ...

When India won the Series against Pakistan in 1986, Hassan Sardar, the Pakistani captain summed up, “We have not lost to India, but to Shahid.” This was what Shahid was capable of. Every time the ...

Charanjit Singh’s name was not in the Indian Hockey Federation’s probables list for the 1960 Olympics. But his superlative display of talent at the Bombay Gold Cup, the Aga Khan Gold Cup and the National ...

The venue is Tokyo; the year 1964; the date 23rd October and the occasion, Olympic hockey final. Five minutes into resumption of play, India tastes a goal through Mohinder Lal. It ignites the fire in ...

Anglo-Indians, barely a million population in the colonial days, contributed immensely towards hockey taking its root in the Indian sub-continent. Many of the successful domestic teams were exclusively manned by them with only a sprinkling ...

Hockey suffered the most after the Partition in 1947. Lahore region that gave 7 of 18 Berlin Olympics team members, went to Pakistan. The Anglo-Indian lot (9 out of 16 in the 1928 Olympics) left ...