Category: My Last Word

Even at best of times, awards are bound to be criticized. With three winners from The Netherlands and the other from Australia in the 2003 FIH Player of the Year Awards list, the announcement disappoints ...

It is everyone’s duty to support the national team. To start with, coaches should support their players, especially when their morale is down and results are not coming in their favour. The players, on their ...

It’s a heartening happening. A whiff of fresh air is sweeping across the shores of global hockey. The old order, so entrenched in their victory mould for decades, seems to be breaking. Hockey’s hitherto unheralded ...

Recently, IWHF sources expressed surprise that three of their nominees for the prestigious Arjuna award were not considered by the concerned Selection Committee. Careful watchers surprise, not at the government’s decision, but at the list ...

New Delhi: 23rd March, 2003: It’s the likes of Phil Appleyards who killed hockey in India. Extract: The Sahara Group that announced a reward of USD five million to Indian cricket team and the business ...

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2001 WE LOST ONE EDITION OF INDIRA CUP WHEN BOMBAY WAS BOMBED by evil terrorists When I shifted my base in the early 90s from a city in central part of India ...

Is affluence a measure of influence? How far the world’s most affluent hockey body influential in the FIH? I am talking about Indian Hockey Federation, undoubtedly the wealthiest of the 120 national federations that form ...

Come on Hockey Not long ago this has been the scenario. All other Indian sports were failing but hockey was winning. Now the role reversal is the order of the day. All other sports are ...

Come on Hockey Not long ago this has been the scenario. All other Indian sports were failing but hockey was winning. Now the role reversal is the order of the day. All other sports are ...