Dhyan Chand : Why Is That The “ family ” Is Deprived Of The Highest National Honour, the values he stood for, the ideals he lived up to will remain endearing, enduring and eternal
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Dhyan Chand : Why
Is That The “ family ” Is Deprived Of
The Highest National Honour
“ Dhyan
Chand - the values he stood for , the ideals he lived up to will remain
endearing, enduring and eternal “ .
Dhyan Chand: India’s greatest, with or without
the Bharat Ratna
Ever since the Bombay
Talkies blockbuster “ Jeevan
Naiya ” hit the screen in 1934, the name Ashok Kumar meant
only one person in the sub-continent. One of the first megastars of Indian
cinema, he remained at the top of the game
for nearly 40 years.
On March 15, 1975, an inside striker, precisely INSIDE-RIGHT, who, too, was named Ashok Kumar by his
parents, overnight turned a national hero when he struck the match-winner
against Pakistan in the World Cup
final in Kuala Lumpur. As the team returned to India with the World Cup (for
the only time to date), there were tumultuous celebrations.
“The
distance from the Jhansi railway station to my ancestral home at number 296 at
Sipri Bazaar, is not more than a couple
of kilometres. It took me more than four hours to reach home after I got down
from the train,” said Ashok Kumar, pushing 70, with a laugh. “ Fans
went completely crazy.”
A
Celebrated Career : Envious but a reality of a “ BLUDEGOOMING ” tales
Known as the wizard of hockey, Dhyan Chand needs no introduction. He was the face of Indian hockey for the earlier part of 1928 to 1964 when India was the world leader in the sport. He helped the nation earn three successive Olympic gold medals in 1928, 1932 and 1936 .
After
the match, the residents of
Vienna built a statue of the wizard which depicts four hands and sticks,
signifying the demi-god stature of
the man.
Indifferent Attitude Of The Government to him and his family
: Apathetical Gloom
When it
comes to bestowing the Bharat Ratna upon him, the attitude of the Government of
India has been rather indifferent. Despite being nominated by the Sports
ministry for the award for as many as four
times, both the UPA and the NDA government have lent a deaf ear to the
demands.
In
fact, even after the rules were amended to make sportspersons eligible for the
award, cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar was chosen for the honour shortly
after he hung his boots, that really makes the EYE blind to see and the ears
makes a JOKE to listen of out of it. Bit of it afterwards but then THAT is the TRUTH of all the JOKES if at all
there is something that ought to be added to the JOKES.
I shall
lay some real TRUTH that was Dhyanchand.
A ) . 1932 : Dhyanchand Stops Germany and
Japan to attack India-:
The
Indian Hockey contingent were travelling to Los Angeles by the ship. In between
the ship carrying the Indian players were crossing the Kama-Gata-Maru ship that
belonged to Japan and it was carrying all the arsenals and the bombs for the
Japanese Army which was planning to strike India India at the behest of Adolf
Hitler.
India
was ruled by Britain. There never use to be the TV channels during those days
and as a result the bemusement of one nation and it’s act of amusing with the
other was readily not known. Unknown and animosity ruled the reins between many
a nations then because of the lack of inflow of proper communication.
Dhyanchand being an Army personnel knew this.
No
sooner that he came to know during the sail that the Japanese ship was crossing
the Indian ship, and the Indian ship was to be attacked by the Japanese,
Dhyanchand send a message to the Captain of the ship to talk to him ONCE. The
Captain of that ship asked Dhyanchand to talk to him as that Captain of the
Japanese ship knew what was Dhyanchand.
On
meeting him the Japanese captain was shocked. This was the man who routed Great
Britain in hockey and had forced the Olympic champion of 1920 and the 1924 of
Hockey to withdraw their team from participating in the 1928 Olympics at
Amsterdam. The Captain accorded a welcome of the greatest order and heard to
Dhyanchnad who made the Japanese ship Commander to understand that IT
WAS NOT INDIA THAT WAS FIGHTING TE GERMANS AND THE JAPANESE BUT WAS THE BRITISH
AS INDIA WAS A SLAVE TO BRITISH.
Many AIR of uncertainty and many doubts were
quelled and the result was that when Japan came to know the truth and when the
truth was relayed to Adolf Hitler at Germany , the German wiped out all his
plans to attack BRITISH-INDIA.
India and Indians would be the sufferer said Hitler for the expense of the
Britishers . Thus a probable attack on India at that time was warded away and
major Dhyanhand was to play a GREAT
role in it.
B ) > We Would Not
Score Any More Goals against U S A : 1932 Olympics
It was the final of the
hockey match against the host USA in 1932.
The
Indian team by the end of the first half had scored 15 ( FIFTEEN) goals against USA . So pity were the Americans that
they DID NOT WANT TO ENTER THE FIELD
against India in the second half. Dhyanchand went to them saying that IT WOULD HURT THE IMAGE OF USA
as they were the host and added that WE
WILL NOT SCORE ANY GOALS AGAINST THE USA IN THE SECOND HALF.
A
message was passed by Dhyanchand to the Indian team that they would not take
any penalty-corners and would not take the penalty strokes against them in the
second half. A message also was passed onto Roop Singh to NOT score any goals against USA in the second half. It was
decided that unless and until a clean goal with the goalkeeper completely out of
position, was found while attacking the US goals, the Indian would back pedal
the ball and would NOT score
any goals against them
Inspite
of providing those handicaps, India scored another NINE goals against them with Roop Singh finishing with
eleven ( 11) goals against US in the
finals to win their SECOND SUCCESIVE OLYMPIC
GOLD.
The US
newspaper cried- BUT FOR THE OVER GENEROSITY OF DHYANCHAND INDIA WOULD AND COULD HAVE
SCORED ATLEAST ANOTHER TEN GOALS IN THE SECOND HALF APART FROM THOSE NINE , WITH ROOP SINGH SCORING ATLEAST FIVE OUT OF
THEM .
So shameful that the U S
A Hockey team was on that day because being the host people expected them to do
something honourable on that day. They lost by 1-24 to India in the finals. They knew
that the next day it would be their newspapers which would strangulate them and
would kill them to the end of the hilt.
To save
themselves from the acrimony they asked the Peruvian Football team to lend them
their national jersey of football to wear it and then to stand on the podium.
They did it because if the newspaper carried their pictures them satnding on
the podium these American Hockey team would say atleast to save their face that
it was the Peruvians standing on the podium and NOT the USA team at all
for anything. It was that they had to do only to save their face .
C ) . ROOP , YOU WILL NOT
SCORE ANY GOALS NOW IN THIS MATCH :
Olympics 1936
The
finals of the 1936 Olympics were on and Germany was attacking India like
anything. It may be added here that in
an exhibition match before the Olympics Berlin 1936 started, Germany in that
game beat India by 4-1 . So
to start with the Indians were overawed and they were a bit defensive in their
approach. The defense of India was severly tested and Ahmed Sher Khan and
Ifthikar Ali Khan Pataudi has a woeful time thwarting the German attacks.
Kuch
Karo Bhai means do something , said Ahmed Sher Khan to Dhyanchand . It was simple and simply MAGIC thereafter that started flowing with
Ali Ishtiaque Dara and Dhyanchand
playing a ONE-TWO and
piercing the Germans.
One
after one India scored FOUR
goals in the first half and conceded one. Roop Singh was getting over worried
as Dhyanchand was NOT laying and
exchanging any pass for him. He came upto his elder brother saying- MAI KYA KUCH BHI NAHIN HOON. GOAL TOH
MUJHEY BHI KARNA HAI, which means that IS THAT I’M NOTHING IN THIS SIDE.
ACCORDING TO THE PLANS OF THE COACH, I TOO HAVE TO SCORE.
Listening
to him Dhyanchand said- BUS, SIRF
“EK” HI KARNA . ZYADA NAHIN which means ONLY SCORE ONE AND NOT MORE.
Aptly listening to his brother Roop Singh scored only ONE.
Because
of Dhyanchand and his GENEROSITY
Roop
Singh could not score many many and many a goals in the Two
Olympics that he played else he would have been the FIRST maybe, in the annals of Olympic Hockey to have
finished scoring and ending his glorious Olympic career scoring FIFTY
goals.
D ) . The US Newspaper praising and
congrajulating Dhyanchand to allow USA to score ONE against them
Mauling
the US team by 24-1 Dhyanchand in that moment looked at the face of some of the
USA players playing against India. Their face could tell so many a tale about
them. India were simply pounding them with the Indians making a mock drill of Hockey and many a lessons to teach them on the
field.
Within
the game the Captain of the US Hockey team came to Dhyanchand and just asked
him- HOW LONG WILL YOU ALL PLAY WITH
US THE SAME WAY. IS THERE ANY METHOS THAT WE CAN BE RESPECTFUL TODAY. Hearing
to it Dhyanchand said- USA will
score ONE definitely. He passed on this message to the playing members to allow
USA to score ONE which they did . That is how he played the game. He carried a lot
of respect MORE for his opponent
than for his team mate because he felt that SPORTS AND SPORTSMAN ARE ALL EQUAL.
After
ther match he escorted the US team
to their changing room and brought them back with all RESPECT for them to stand on the PODIUM to receive their medal . That made him to win a LOT OF HEARTS at US.The
USA team on that day after
being mauled so very badly just DID
NOT had the strength and the guts to come to the podium to receive
their medal and had NOT been
Dhyanchand, they perhaps would not have come to the podium to receive that.
The
newspaper also PRAISED
Dhyanchand for having ALLOWED
US to score ONE against them as a GIFT from the Indian team to
them. That was in the Olympics 1932 at Los Angeles.
Not Comparing Yet
Analysing :: Dhyanchand was FAR ahead of Sachin in comparism::
Now,
without getting into the debate of who out of Tendulkar and Dhyan Chand has
done bigger service to the country – as doing so would mean undermining the
efforts of both legends – let’s try to think of the logic behind the call.
Assuming that the contribution of both Sachin and Dhyan Chand was equivalent,
Chand should have been the first Indian sportsperson to receive the Bharat
Ratna on the grounds of seniority.
Let us
also take the INPUT-OUTPUT
contribution of these two . Dhyanchand as I have explained brought India about 97%plus of victory and his goals as
compared to the International matches he played for India as against the
matches that he represented stands in the ratio of 1: 1 .He scored a 400
plus goals for India playing about 400 matches for them. In all in his enture career he scored about 1248 goals in about 1167
games which is a ratio of 1.069:1
.
As
compared Sachin Tendulkar for the 100
International centuries
that he scored has the MORTIFICATION
of losing about 65 matches for those centuries.In other words his 65 % of the effort ended in a LOSS for India .The remains of 35 % might have seen him winning say about 15% of the matches in terms of
finishing it in an even keel and
losing the remainders .
Karsan Ghavri At The Top
On That Matter
No
Indian cricketer in this regard stands even a FRACTION-OF-AN-INCH ahead of
Karsan Ghavri in this matter . He played in 39 Tests, won 13 for India, lost 13
for India and drew 13 of them for India. Thus his ratio stands at 33.33%:33.33%:33.34%
in terms of “ W-L-D ” and he
stands HEAD-AND-SHOULDER
above anybody else as an Indian International cricketer but he is not and he
was NOT even considered for an Arjuna which he really deserved as an cricketer
but here we see Sachin Tendulkar with that kind of a “ HEINOUS- DISINTEGRATING-
EFFORT ” in terms of OUTPUT to receive that BHARAT RATNA for his OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION to
sports. In ACTUALITY his
contribution that helped India to win is say about 15 % and here we have Ghavri
contributing about 33.33%. A FELLOW INDIAN CRICKETER who
cannot match Ghavri in contribution is awarded the BHARAT RATNA over Dhyanchand whose RATIO and the CONTRIBUTION
are 97% plus which is about SEVEN times more than Sachin.
This explains the WORLD a lot but
then that is what is the Indian Government which confers these awards. That is
what is the CONGRESS which thinks in that manner.
JUXTAPOSITION:: The “
TALE” DOES NOT MAKES IT THE “ WAGGING-TAIL ”
OK-
this does not fulfils the juxtaposition
let me make a simple calculation.
Dhyanchand
won THREE Olympic Gold
playing in three of them. It is a 100%
result in terms of the success . Sachin played in SEVEN WORLD CUP winning ONE
and that too in India in 2011 . It took Sachin TWENTY TWO years to put his hand on the world Cup, and from THREE consecutive Olympics
Dhayanchand had won THREE . That
defines the LEXICOGRAPHY
of “ SIMPLE MADE SIMPLY SIMPLE ”
.
Again-
out of the 100 centuries that Sachin scored India lost in about 65 games in which he scored
those, but out of the 400
goals scored by Dhyanchand for India in the matches he played for india from
1928 to 1948 , his 391 goals fetched India the WIN. It is 97.75% of success .
Out of
the TWO-HUNDRED Test that Sachin
played for India he migt have lost in more than HUNDRED of those matches, whereas Dhyanchnad in his INTERNATIONAL for India from the
three OLYMPICS did not LOSE any one of his match to his
opponent. .
By that
STANDARD what was Sachin’s
ratio in terms of the runs he scored and the matches he played IT WAS AND IT IS ABSURD TO COMPARE AS THE ONE’S WHO
BREATHE BY SACHIN’S NAME WILL FIND IT HARD TO “ DIGEST ” AND I DO NOT WANT TO DESTRUCT THE TASTE OF THEIR MOUTH.
On A “ HUMOUROUS ” NOTE ,
PLEASE - :
There
were many a MOUTH and there were
many who made a NATIONAL “ GULLIBLE ” CRIES on the media about
conferring this award to Sachin over Dhyanchnad. It was because these elements
were to be fetched by the MAHATMA
which we keep in our pocket to make a MOUNTAINS
of ENRICHMENT that would
fulfil the tomma by the , that we call it “ ANGREZI-LASSI ” and many
more of those things which fulfils the amusement. In terms of comical language and to describe the worst that comes out of the wine, also to mock it, in Hindi belt the English wines are known as " ANGREZI-LASSI " .
This I
write only to add some LAUGHTER
to those who might read this to SLANG
me as SLANGING has become the BIRTH-RIGHT for the Indians now-a-days
to make their justification felt and ofcourse if you have the MIGHT to prove that MIGHT-IS-RIGHT then ofcourse you can ask
the people to gather and start BURNING
the city, the town and the country . THAT
MAKES YOU A LEADER MAYBE A LOCAL, REGIONAL OR THE NATIONAL IN THE FUTURE,
but that is how it goes now a days.
Nothing
that Sachin Tendulkar in terms of his achievement could match to Dhyanchand and
the family of Dhyanchand do not have the
likes of Rajdeep Sardesi, and Boria Majumdar- another CROUCHING mouth with CROCKING
words coming out of it for every time when we hear him about SPORTS.
Boria
Majumdar has engulfed him with a habit. It is what one might ask me and I
explain hereunder-:
If he
critically speaks about anything in sports, just put some MONEY in his pocket and see the RIGHT-ABOUT-TURN
and the “ U-TURN ” that he
will display- fully knowing that HE
HAS NEVER SET HIS FOOT ON THE GROUND ANYTIME IN HIS LIFE. Yet he has made the people all over India to
feel that he is something SUPERNATURAL of sports , which he is not. Harsha Bhogle too is two yard
ahead of Rajdeep Babu and Boria in this manner and matter. . He is the LUCKIEST one WHO
DOES NOT KNOWS ANYTHING ON OR ABOUT SPORTS BUT HAS MADE THE HIMALAYAS OF
DOLLARS OUT OF IT What a “ KUBERI-BHAGYADHAN ” that he possesses who does
not even knows the FIRST sentence of
“
LOKHI-PAANCHALI ” and might have NEVER read that even once though every Thursday in the evening the
Bengali ladies would read it for Maa Laxmi to change their state of life
monetarily which just does not happens to them even after
reading that paanchali till the death takes them away. But here is a man who does not knows anything on sports to make a HIMALAYA out of it.
E ) . GREATEST EXAMPLE OF REVENGE :: NEVER
WOULD IT BE SEEN ANYMORE
In the
finals of the 1936 Olympics, Dhyanchand ws purposefully hit by the German
goalkeeper. The hit was so strong that Dhyanchnad lost ONE of his tooth. A
immediate first aid brought him back to the game.
He and
the Indian team were waiting for another five minutes for the final hooter and
to get that Gold. He came back and passed on a message to his teram mate. GEND
SIRF MUJHE DENA. BUS SIRF MUJHE which means that GIVE THE BALL TO ME AND ONLY
ME.
In that
span of five times the Indians through Dhyanchand opened about TEN scoring chances flumping the
German goalkeeper everytime with the OPEN
goal in front of him yet Dhyanchand would NOT
score. He repeatedly kept on sending the German goalkeeper on the ground to
click the dust without scoring. Had the Indians scored the score would have
been about twelve or even more than it but the Indians TAUGHT those Germinates and the German Goalkeeper some lesson
about ARTISTIC HOCKEY of the GREATEST Asian brand. .
On the
contrary Sachin was all BLAST
on Rahul Dravid when Dravid had declared the Indian innings in a Test match when Sachin
was batting on an unbeaten 194 .The
cause of anger was WHY DID’NT YOU
WAIT FOR ME TO GET THAT DOUBLE. So that explains it and all about it.
Dissapointment : But Is
There An Ear To Hear That and “ FLUXOM ”
It Inversely
Expressing
his disappointment over the decision, ex-Indian Hockey captain Sandeep Singh
now a MLA in the BJP Government at Haryana, had said, “Hockey has brought India
pride many times. It’s the third largest
sports in the world. The sports which are on number one and two spot don’t
even have a history in India. Secondly, if we don’t want to recognize it as the
national game then we also shouldn’t celebrate August 28, hockey legend Major
Dhyan Chand’s birth anniversary, as National Sports Day in India.”
“It’s a shame that a
person who has done India proud in so many occasions hasn’t been given the
highest honour of the country, yet.”
During
his last days, when Dhyan Chand needed his country the most – the same country
which he had helped win laurels by giving his blood and sweat
– India gave him a cold shoulder. With no financial support, the legend spent
his last days in the general ward of AIIMS, fighting a losing
battle with liver cancer.
“Why are we begging for the award for Dadda (Dhyan Chand). He
should have been the first to get it. Whether he gets it or not, the cult of
Dhyan Chand will remain forever,” former India hockey
coach AK Bansal had said while speaking during one of the panel discussions
held on National Sports Day.
YET- I BEG IT FOR HIM,
FOR HOCKEY TO THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT
It is
quite interesting to draw a parallel here that the father of the nation,
Mahatma Gandhi never got a Nobel Prize. Despite that, he remains to be revered
far more than most Nobel laureates across the world. On the same lines, if
Dhyan Chand is not conferred with the Bharat Ratna, whose loss is it?
Snippet Of The Finals Of The Berlin Olympic 1936 ) Click here in this link to see atleast SEVEN minutes of Dhyanchand’s “ WIZARDY ”
Indian sport’s “ first ”
family :: Can That Be “ Termed ” As
One ?
But, a brush with name and fame was
not exactly a new experience for Ashok Kumar. He had come from a family, which
already had five Olympic gold medals in the cupboard. Three belonged to his
father, Dhyan Chand,
arguably the greatest hockey player in history. The other two were
bagged by his uncle Roop Singh.
Pics - : Olympic '36 Roop Singh "magically" weaves through the strong French defense in the semis. India beat France by 10-0.
Ashok,
too, added a few medals to the collection. A bronze, a silver and the winners’ medal
– all from the first three editions of the World Cups he played. He
won a bronze in 1972 Olympics, and three silver medals in Asian Games. In
the 70s, Ashok was arguably the world’s finest inside striker, a star by his
own right, who did not have to refer to his father every time
to make people take notice of him.
I place
here the list and the numbers of the medal by that family- the “ SINGH ” family
of Dhyanchand whom we are talking about-:
|
Name |
S.No |
Year |
Name Of The Event |
Venue |
India's Position |
|||
|
Major Dhyanchand |
1 |
1928 |
Olympic Amsterdam |
Amsterdam |
Gold |
|||
|
Major Dhyanchand |
2 |
1932 |
Olympic Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
Gold |
|||
|
Major Dhyanchand |
3 |
1936 |
Olympic Berlin |
Berlin |
Gold |
|||
|
Captain Roop Singh |
2 |
1932 |
Olympic Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
Gold |
|||
|
Captain Roop Singh |
3 |
1936 |
Olympic Berlin |
Berlin |
Gold |
|||
|
Ashok Kumar |
4 |
1970 |
Bangkok Asian Games |
Bangkok |
Silver |
|||
|
Ashok Kumar |
5 |
1971 |
World Cup-I |
Barcelona |
Bronze |
|||
|
Ashok Kumar |
6 |
1972 |
Olympics |
Munich |
Bronze |
|||
|
Ashok Kumar |
7 |
1973 |
World Cup-II |
Amsterdam |
Silver |
|||
|
Ashok Kumar |
8 |
1974 |
Asian Games |
Tehran |
Silver |
|||
|
Ashok Kumar |
9 |
1975 |
World Cup-III |
Kuala Lumpur |
Gold |
|||
|
Ashok Kumar |
10 |
1978 |
Bangkok Asian Games |
Bangkok |
Silver |
|||
|
ABSTRACT OF THE MEDAL WON BY THE FAMILY FOR INDIA |
||||||||
|
S.no |
Name |
Number Of Tournament participated |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
||
|
Olympic |
World Cup |
Asian games |
||||||
|
1 |
M.D |
3 |
nil |
nil |
3 |
3 |
||
|
2 |
Capt R.S |
2 |
Nil |
Nil |
2 |
2 |
||
|
3 |
A.K.D |
2 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
7 |
|
12 |
||||||||
This apart the family has also contributed to THREE more medals, ONE coming through Ms Neha who gave India a SILVER MEDAL in Hockey in the Womens' Asian Championship , and then there were two more International medal both GOLD, when Ashok Kumar representing India at the Pesta Sukan International, won a GOLD in 1971 at Malaysia and again in 1975 when India beat Belgium by 2-0 in the Finals Of Rene Frank International Hockey tourney to win that Trophy. This makes it a total of FIFTEEN Medals from the Internationals in Hockey for India.
This
family in TOTO has contributed “ SIX ” GOLDS to India in
hockey, from the Olympics and the World Cup, and except the GOLD in the
Asian Games Hockey , it has won the GOLD
for India in all the other hockey tournament that tags itself with an INTERNATIONAL SPORTS-FIESTA as far as
events are concerned .
The entire
family representing India in FIFTEEN different edition of the International fiesta of games- won 15 medals averaging
ONE MEDAL each per games. THIS IS A WORLD RECORD in terms
of the RATIO that a family has won in ONE event of the
games ranging from the Olympics to the Asian games in ONE event of the
games, and BET- IT WOULD NOT BE BROKEN FOR ATLEAST ANOTHER 100 YEARS
LOCK
IT- NO FAMILY IN INDIA FOR ANOTHER
CENTURY OR EVEN MORE WILL WIN THIS MANY MEDALS FOR INDIA IN A SINGLE EVENT OF
THE SPORTS.
Pic- : 1975 :: Ashok Kumar receiving his Arjuna Award award from the Hon'ble President .
Going by
this logic- the TRIO Major Dhaynchand
should have won the BHARAT RATNA many
a years ago, his BROTHER , Captain ROOP SINGH should have won the prestigious and the " gangling " “ PADMA SHRI ” and that should
have been conferred to him between 1964 to 1969 and Ashok Kumar whose tally of
medals is illustrated here should have been conferred the Padma Shri between
the period of 1987 to 1995 .
There are
several examples of father and son duo shining for the country in Indian sport.
Starting from Lala Amarnath-Mohinder Amarnath, Vijay Manjrekar-Sanjay
Manjrekar, Vinoo Mankad-Ashok Mankad, Yograj Singh-Yuvraj Singh, Vece
Paes-Leander Paes, Micheal Ferriera and Mark Ferriera, Shyam Thapa and Manas Thapa, – there are many other such instances where two generation of
sportspersons, who have done the country proud in sporting arena.
Dhyanchand :: Ashok Kumar - The "FIRST" Father-Son duo to win an Olympic Hockey Medal
In the entire history of the Indian sports and in the entire HISTORY of the WORLD Hockey, it is Major Dhyanchand and his son , Asshok Kumar who became the FIRST , FATHER-SON duo to win an Olympic Hockey Medal for India . This was followed by Vece Paes and Leander Paes who won it as the second pairing of the Father-Son duo to win the Olympic medal for India but that was in two different sports.
Vece Paes was the member of the Indian Hockey team that won the Bronze in the 1972 Olympics and his son Leander won an Oympic Bronze in Lawn Tennis. It would attract to know the readers that Vece Paes played Hockey for Mohu Bagan and India along with Ashok Kumar .
Few,
however, can match the family of Dhyan Chand but FRANKLY no one can match the LAUREL that this family has brought to India. . Several from
the family have played hockey with distinction and have donned the national
colours sometime or the other. To say the Jhansi based family is like
the first family of Indian sport won’t be an exaggeration though Ashok is
reluctant to be dragged into this debate.
“Is
it for me to say it? Won’t it sound like beating my own drum? It is for the
people to judge and I will leave it to them. All I can say is that my entire
family played hockey with lots of passion and people appreciated their skills.
“Let’s
not start with cliché of discussing about my father’s class and ability as a
hockey player. But remember, it was Dhyan Chand, who made people around the
world realise the standard of Indian hockey during the 1926 tour of New
Zealand. That was a huge thing for a nation, which was yet to gain
independence. He was later joined by his brother Roop Singh in 1932 and 1936
Olympics. I was the third member of the family to play the Olympics,” he added.
The family’s hockey repertoire,
however, speaks for itself - :: .
Says Ashok Kumar with PRIDE , “My uncles and brothers have all played hockey at
some stage or the other, mostly at the national level. Roop Singh’s son Bhagat Singh played for India in
exhibition matches. My elder brother Raj
Kumar was a brilliant player, who captained Mohun Bagan and Bengal and
played for India in tour matches.
My other brothers Umesh Kumar, Davinder Singh were quality players. My
niece Neha Singh represented the national team,” said Ashok.
Yet,
none of the second generation players learned their game from Dhyan Chand. In
fact, he didn’t even encourage them to pursue the sport. He, perhaps, would
have liked them to concentrate in academics.
That
House That Had Three Olympic “ GOLD ” did not have electricity till 1963
Ashok
Kumar gets a bit nostalgic and his eye are filled with TEARS. He says that one would NOT
believe me if I say the kind of tortures that we had to see and go during the
time when we had to study at NIGHT
because we were NOT supplied the
electricity in that house at all till 1963
Burning
the LAMPS and lighting the candles
we all the brothers and the sisters assembled at one of a very small room to
study at night during the entire academic years aftar years to pass our exam.
For that was the pitiable condition that we were put at and my Father DID
NOT WANT US TO PLAY HOCKEY. “ HOCKEY GAVE ME NO RECOGNITION AND RESPECT ”, HE
WOULD SAY TO HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS always and would plea them to
study hard and well.
“You
just asked me something about the first family of sport in India. Well, I don’t
know what does it exactly mean. All I know that by 1936, my father had three
gold medals in his home in Jhansi. But the same house didn’t have an
electricity connection till 1963. He retired from the Army in 1956,
but worked as a coach in various government positions for many years.
“Of
course, he was sought after because of his knowledge and fame. But the reason
he kept on working was that he needed a steady income to support a large
family. There was definitely a time when he wanted to rest, but he had no
option then,” said Ashok.
For the love of the game
There was no dramatic
change in the lifestyle of the so-called first family even after Ashok Kumar
returned home with the World Cup medal.
“
I was employed with Indian Airlines. I used to take up flight purser’s duty
regularly because it used to fetch me some extra allowance. My salary was
ordinary. When I bought a flat in Delhi, I was burdened with too many loans. “ We
were financially never too sound, but in terms of medals, few in India would be
able to match our family,” he said and he always says it with pride. Ofcourse that is well illustrated
in the chart of the medal that I have put above for the readers to read that
and those.
Indian
hockey, Ashok feels, has often been ruined by politics. “ It happened always, starting
from the days when my father and uncle played the game. It was no different
when I played ”. When I look back at 1972 Olympics, I
still wonder why Surjit Singh, Balbir Singh or Inam-ur-Rehman did not make the squad.
Had they been there, we would have never lost to Pakistan, I can say it
confidently.”
Dhyanchand Realises The “ Futility ”
of the process
Perhaps
Dhyan Chand realised the futility of the process long before his son did. In
1975, when Ashok returned home from Kuala Lumpur, his father was unusually
quiet amidst revelries all around.
“
When I reached home, he was standing at the courtyard of our house with other
family members. I stopped and touched his feet. He put his hand on my head for
a few seconds but didn’t say a word. Then he slowly walked back into the house.
Being a reserved man, that was probably the best way to express his
appreciation. Believe me, it was one of the best moments of my sporting career.
Because I knew he did not want us to
play the game,” says Ashok but against his wish and against all the
odds- I FINALLY BROUGHT THAT WORLD
CUP HOME prides Ashok .
He
then, paused to add: “ Babuji was aware how the system worked.
Olympics were not held in 1940 and 1944. That would have added two more gold
medals to his kitty” . But still he knew it was impossible to
change the system. And now, I also know it. That’s what leaves me frustrated at times. Because, “ first
family or not, hockey will remain our family’s first love. Forever. Always.”
Working
Style – A BIT Different and that is
the REAL CAUSE : Mr Modi has to be a " SAMARITAN "
Well
it was the FILE that had Dhyanchand’s name for the BHARAT RATNA. The media in a
process to get their HORRENDOUS motive fulfilled made a stage where Sachin
Tendulkar met Rahul Gandhi .The BEST is Not to talk about this CHARACTER for
anything about anything.
Sachin
met him and the media went berseck about this meeting. SOMETHING transpired and
the name Dhyanchand got converted into Sachin Tendulkar overnight courtesy this
RAJKUMAR of the Gandhi scion . This scion met Mr Man Mohan Singh and turned the
file putting Sachin Tendulkar’s name for the same and got the signature of the
Prime Minister of India then and send the file overnight to Mrs Pratibha Patil
to sign on it. It was done BLINDLY as it is the ORDERS of the N-G family are
translated into a reality blindly ever since 1930.
From
then onwards we can see the plight of those Indians who really KNOW the SPORTS
and it’s tale of India CRYING and some have even lost their SIGHT because of
the no ending tears falling out of their eye.
Mr Shivraj Singh Chauhan writes to
“PM” Modi but all in vain-:
It was Mr Shivraj Singh Chauhan the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh ,
who had thereafter for THREE different times had written a OFFICIAL
letters to the Hon’ble Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi to confer the BHARAT
RATNA to Mr Dhyanchand and probably if my information is CORRECT to confer the
Padma Shri to Captain Roop Singh but the style of working of Mr Modi is so very different from Mr
Manmohan Singh and that tells that .
Still
if the Hon’ble President Of India and the Hon’ble Prime Minister even now
confer this award to the names mentioned and adds the name of Netaji Subash
Chandra Bose for the BHARAT RATNA
the daughter of Netaji at Germany and the family of Dhyanchand at LAST will feel- ::
THE ALMIGHTY HAS BLESSED THEM and India has “
WORSHIPPED ” at LAST the one’s
who were and are the REAL GOD
of POLITICS and “ Indian
Sports That We Know As Cricket ”
So many and so a " MANY " useless " GOD " have been produced by cricket tat their output in terms of Indian getting the major benefit remains a " QUESTION-OF-CONJECTURE "
And For Once - for the sake of the nation " Mr Modi has to be a " SAMARITAN " Yes he has to for the FIRST " FAMILY" of Indian sports He has to be in case of many who purposely have been deprived of the honour and they are waiting for him to be a Samaritan for them to get the justice out of him.
It is still a matter of intrigue and the entire nation keeps on asking to each other without finding any real proper answer as to - " WHY IS THAT MAJOR DHYANCHAND AND NETAJI SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE ARE AND HAVE BEEN DEPRIEVED OF THER BHARAT RATNA AND TO WHAT AN EXTENT THEY WOULD BE DEPRIVED OF THE SAME "
That
sums it all about this family that brother Roop Singh the WORLD’s BEST CENTRE-FORWARD produced in Hockey, and youngest of Dhyanchand’s brother the middle
one was a wrestler and his
son Ashok
Kumar who was the BEST DRIBLLER and an inside RIGHT , of hockey during his playing
days.
Regards
Pics
Shyamal
Bhattacharjee
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of Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Thanks for the indepth thought provoking soul stirring saga of the true legend of India. Appreciate your efforts in putting up a mesmerising post. It was indeed long overdue.
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