Category: HistoryWatch

It was a solemn occasion. The ambience befitted the occasion. Anything that transpired there had a shade of sentiment, a touch of nostalgia. The assembly line was as wide as possible. From school kids, seemingly ...

Recently journalist Shailesh Chaturvedi, Hindustan, visited hockey wizard Dhyan Chand’s hometown. He observed how neglected is the game of hockey in his hometown, despite concerted efforts by a a few die-hard hockey supporters. Shailesh Chaturvedi’s ...

“Our players are not more skillful than the top Europeans” asserted Brigadier HJS Chimni, star of gold winning 1975 World Cup team. “Artificial turf is not the reason for our downfall”, thundered triple Olympic gold ...

An interview with Pak hockey living legend Anwar Ahmed Khan is one of the hockey greats, produced by Pakistan in its early years. A midfielder of a class of his own, a master craftsman and ...

New Delhi: 8th August, 2004. Ashwini Kumar, former vice president, International Olympic Committee, has left Delhi for Athens in the wee hours of Sunday, the 8th August. What commenced as a personal visit to London ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bangalore: A member of the 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold-medal winning Indian hockey team Muniswamy Rajagopal passed away here in the early hours of Wednesday after a brief illness. The 77-year-old is survived by his wife, ...

HOCKEY lovers in Bangalore woke up to a shock on Wednesday (3rd March 2004) morning. To the news of the passing away of the City’s last of the living Olympic gold-medallists. The former Indian stalwart ...