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Red card for Indian
hockey
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Photo by Reuters
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Sports
authorities, players, media and the federation must share
the blame for forcing Indian hockey into a corner. The
failure of the team in the Olympic qualifier is also a
huge loss for international hockey, which will never be
the same without India, writes Prabhjot
Singh
The
70-minute game
Great Britain and India played at Santiago on March 9 has
not only left hundreds of thousands of ardent fans of
hockey in India disappointed, dejected and shocked but has
also inflicted a critical and historic blow on the sport
which may never be the same again. |
We
have not adjusted to the modern game
Balbir Singh Senior
 Hockey
has been my first
love since childhood. Because of my long association with the
game, I am deeply hurt. It is easy to criticise but hard to be
constructive. When the question of fixing responsibility arises
the parent body i.e. the Hockey Federation comes under a
scanner. There is much room for improvement in administration of
the game.
Days of glory: The Indian hockey team which won the gold at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The wizardry of Dhyan Chand (encircled) amazed none other than Adolf Hitler
Need
to start afresh
Pargat Singh
A
lot has been said and written in the last few days about the
downfall of Indian hockey. Now it is time to get over the anger
and anguish and get down to some real soul-searching and work
out a plan for the future. Long-term planning is often ignored
by Indian sports authorities.
Small
steps to the big screen
Eleven-year-old
Darsheel Safary was recently awarded the Filmfare Critics Award
for Best Performance. Shoma A. Chatterji
says many child artistes, in the past too, have given indelible
performances in Hindi films. While some of them went on to be
successful adult actors, others simply faded away
Whatever
happened to those
naughty kids who regaled us all in Mr India? Of the many
child actors, Aftab Shivdasani is the only child to have grown
to become a hero. What happened to the two lanky boys from
Gulzar’s Kitaab? Master Alankar grew up to become
Alankar.
‘Taj
Mahal’ blooms in Tamil Nadu
Let
a hundred ‘Taj
Mahals’ bloom. Yes, indeed, the Taj Mahal in question is a new
variety of deep red rose and it is wowing the world. The floral
wonder with a one-metre-long stem and six-cm head has been
created in Amudagondapalli, a tiny village in South India.
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