Great Indian Olympians and Profiles of Indian Hockey Olympians now available on Amazon

With the Rio Olympics approaching, two of the Olympics books are now available on Amazon.

Profiles of Indian Hockey Olympians

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Author: K.Arumugam
Price: Rs.780/- (Hardbound)
Description:‘Profiles of Indian Hockey Olympians’, is a first of its kind book, portraying complete career graph of these illustrious men who courted Indian hockey’s glorious journey since it made its Olympic foray in 1928. The book, with its rare insight and images, is a collector’s item.This book was published in year 2012.

Great Indian Olympians

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Authors: Gulu Ezekiel and K.Arumugam
Price: Rs.480/- (Hardbound)
Description: Indian Olympic history is more than one hundred years old. India has never boycotted any Olympics and was able to segregate sports from global politics. It has expectedly produced numerous stars who graced the Olympic horizon. Beginning with the 1900 Olympics, ‘Great Indian Olympians’ travels through the entire history of the Games keeping in step with the evolution of sporting talent of international caliber in the country.

Also among the stars are Dhyan Chand – the wizard of hockey; Leslie Claudius – the last of the Anglo Indians to play for the country; Mohd. Shahid, the man who tried to salvage India’s shaky hockey team; Balbir Singh; Balkrishan Singh; Shankar Laxman, Charanjit Singh and many others.

This is a saga of the lives and times of the heroes of the country. This book was published in year 2012.