INDIAN
SPORTS TAKES A NEW TURN :: Shooting “ SHOOTS” India to a New-Sky-High Dr
Karni Singh - ::
HE ALSO DEMONSTRATED THE
SILVER LINING OF THE INDIAN DEFENSE ESPECIALLY THE INDIAN ARMY.
Army has produced many a galaxies and many a galaxy of Sportsman
and Major Dhyanchand was the first one who was a GOLD MEDALLION. However in the
individual event it was Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore who proved the SILVER and
the lineage that it holds for the Army in Indian sports.
Pic :: Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore proudly displaying his Silver Olympic medal
Thereafter immediately we had Abhinav Bindra who so far is the
LONE GOLD MEDAL winner in the annals of the Indian sports and Olympics history
in shooting. But he was not an Army personnel.
Shooting
:: Extravaganza and the heritage of the Rajas and Maharajas.
Shooting is a very highly priced rich man sports In a poor
country like India except for the Rajas and the Maharajas then nobody could
ever dream of taking shooting as a sports The poor’s would take on to football
and hockey as these two sports are still dubbed as poor man's sports though a
very ordinary hockey pair of shoes would not cost less than Rs 3,000=00 now.
Dr Karni Singh a Maharaja from Bikaner took this sports because
he could afford it . In his childhood he would go to the hunt with his father
and they would kill leopards and the antelopes but that did not please him .
Since he was from the Maharajah clan and he wanted to do
something new he found out about shooting as a sports and after reading its
intricacies he took to trap shooting .
In 1967 in the WORLD SHOOTING COMPETITION , he CREATED a FLUTTER and a FURORE . Against
all the expectations he won a BRONZE
for India .That set the ball rolling for
shooting in India
That was the FIRST international shooting medal for India in the
World competition and though it was a BRONZE it send a wave of ferocity amongst
the shooting fraternity of the world .
It was because India was so poor in shooting that whenever any
international shooting competition was held no invitation was send to India and
the Indian shooters to participate in
them. Here again it was the same case .
Maharaja Karni Singh spent the money from his own pocket to
reach the venue and again fought a lone battle to get an wild card entry which
after many a struggle he got that .
He qualified as a wild card and from then he went on to win the
Bronze the first ever for India in the International shooting competition .
Deprived
of any facilities thereafter
For most of the time , before and thereafter winning that Bronze medal , Maharaja Karni Singh did not get the
facilities of practicing in the range as that was also not available at India .The one that was at Delhi was far away from Bikaner
and that too was not properly maintained
Against all the odds Maharaja Karni Singh qualified as a class
shooter of India and he saw to it that shooting as sports spread all over India
though the expenses were so high to play this sports .
Later on his daughter Ms Bhubaneshwari Kumari too took part in
the sports as a shooter . She also
participated as an Indian international in shooting
That is how shooting spread in India and this man ought to be
credited to dig a sport in the annals of Indian sports history
Rgds
Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Well , that is it
Regards and Thanks
Pics
Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal
Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at
District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He
received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur
and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at
Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and
completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree
in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA,
a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur
as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but
gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter
added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books
namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak
Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It
published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office
Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012. He has a
experience of about 35 years in Marketing
Signature Of Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Comments
Post a Comment