India first participated in their Hockey Olympic team in 1928. To everyone's surprise they won the Gold medal (Suvarna Padak in Hindi) on their first attempt. As they say rest is the history, Indian Hockey Team retained the Gold medal for next 6 consecutive Olympics (i.e From 1928 - 1956). In total India has 8 Gold medals and has always qualified for Olympics since 1928. That was the Golden Era of Indian Hockey. Hockey being the National sport of one of the largest populated countries in the world, India, reached zenith at one point of time.
Because of these achievements, if a paparazzi asked the hockey players like Dhanraj Pillay (I respect him for his achievements) just before the world cup, they used to say "Hum keval suvarna padak jeet kar layenge".... Plzzz think twice before giving such a big bhaukaaal.
K.P.S Gill scripted a Shakespearean ending to Indian Hockey i.e Tragedy. Its not entirely his fault there are lot of bhaukaaals in the media that is responsible for this catastrophe. When Indian Cricket Team won the 20/20 WorldCup, there were lot of questions asked by the media. Some hockey players complained and even had gone on a hunger strike ( Now thats emotional bhaukaaal) when cash rewards were showered on Indian cricket team after their Twenty20 World Cup triumph. They accused that government was biased towards circket. Now they must understand the difference.
Media has a problem with SRK watching the cricket matches and he doesnt spend time on watching live hockey matches. Now what kind of stupid argument is that. Just because the star did a movie on hockey he does not have to be a brand ambassador for that game. Moreover he is an actor he does movies for his popularity and awards and not for spreading a game or something like that. If he really cared for the game then he would have spend his money on hockey team or buy a team in Premiere Hockey League(PHL). But he knew he can make more money from cricket so he invested his money in Indian Premiere League(IPL).
So the moral of the story is that Indian Hockey has reached its Nadir and the entire administration is responsible for it, not cricket. Some administrative people have been suspended including K.P.S.Gill because of corruption charges. So Mr. Gill its time for you to put on the song "Kuch Kariye, Kuch Kariye... nuss nuss khaule...." on repeat mode. Hope that might trigger something in you.
Some reference : here
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looks like you finished this blog in a hurry. I would've appreciated more background and archived bhaukaals from Indian hockey players/administration. After hearing your claim yesterday 'KPS Gill ko nanga kar doonga' i'm kinda disappointed :$.
Please write another column on the current status of indian hockey, this time with more bhaukaal:D.
On a separate note, you may want to write abt the different categories of bhaukaal - ie past bhaukaal, future bhaukaal, sports bhaukaal, emotional bhaukaal etc. A lot of people out there are waiting to be enlightened
@Rahul :
I did not want to target Gill, coz that guy has done a lot of work against terrorism and he is kinda good in that field. My major concern was for the people complaining on cricket being the reason of overshadowing hockey and the corruption in the hockey administration.
I will add some links for your references.
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