The Aftermath " of " August 7th , 2021" " HOCKED " and " STLED " Before " BOULDED " By That " GOLD "
Pic - :: The Aftermath and the reaction of the face expressing it
August 7th
, 2021 :: The Aftermath Of The Same …..
It was not a very easy time for many who follow the sports
event of the Olympics……..
For this Olympics of 2021 at Tokyo, there was one moment
which was as dreadful and as if the death had for some seconds stopped the life
as the moments of the 1964 Olympics where the India-Pakistan Hockey finals saw
India throttling off those dreadful moments when in the last five minutes,
Shankar Laxman saved two penalty corner and one save on a one-to-one situation
to help India to win that Gold, the seventh one that it was in Hockey then…..
It happened the same when India shouldered itself against
the might of the Germans. Those pulsating moment the last few minutes and the
seconds were as same as the moments of 1980 when India had won the eight Hockey
Gold .It was Mohammed Shahid then, it was Shankar Laxman in 1964 and it was
Sreejesh now…… these three are the three “ S " of Indian Hockey just
like we had the three “ W ” of West-Indies cricket or the three “ S ” Sardesai,
Solkar and Sunil Gavaskar of Indian cricket…… The difference is that the
cricketers mentioned here played together for their team but the Hockey stars
mentioned here played at a different era
for India …… the first two have been the Gold Medallion but the last has
to win a GOLD for India in Hockey……. Nevertheless all GREAT Hockey players with
Sreejesh joining tat list now after such a stupendous performance in the
reently concluded Olympics Hockey game……
On a personal scale the loss of the eves in Hockey had to a
large extent destructed many who have been following Indian Eves Hockey . It
was way back in 1964 when an effort was made to promote the Eves Hockey in
India but the social barriers and the poor infrastructure of the Eves Hockey
laid it down for it to die.
In the early seventies, Mrs Vidya Stokes from Himachal who
was a politician as well, with the aid and the lateral help from Mrs Indira Gandhi
, once again laid out a plan for Eves Hockey and the Eves Hockey, because of
the aids that it gor from the centre, thanks to Mrs Gandhi amd Mrs Vidya Stokes got the ball rolled for Eves
Hockey and a Lady by the name of Geeta Sarin and another one, Ms Chanchal Kaur
who later married the Late Surjit Singh, who had scored off from that penalty
corner for India on March 15th 1975 for India to win that match
against Pakistan , dsaw the Indian Hockey national Women’s team taking it off
and slowly by the start of the 1980 and it’s era the Eves Hockey in India
started flourishing but the success were few and far and not that everybody
gave any hoot to it…..
India missed the podium finish in 1980 at the Moscow
Olympics when they had to play as many as
seven days with two consecutive matches that they had to play on two
different occasion on two following days. The physicality of the Indians dug
them where Zimbabwe won the GOLD for the FIRST time in Eves Hockey in the
inaugural Eves Olympics tourney…..
India thereafter walked away with GOLD in the inaugural Eves
Hockey tourney in the New Delhi 1982 Asiad , but ever since then the Eves
Hockey was done away with …… it was out and dead for the counts…..
It was this, the Tokyo Olympics, 2021, that this team of
India raised some hopes which could be termed as many a hopes to win their
first ever Hockey medal to stand on the podium and they came very close to it
but missed it. It was just inexperience to hold their opponent at bay and play
SMART Hockey that dug them against their match against Argentina in the semis
and in the play-off match that they ended losing and also the fact that the
inexperience of taking the leave for allowing the roll-in-subsstitution to come
in, made their life to cry after losing that match else this Eves team had
nearly scripted a history….
This loss had made me somewhat very uneasy and not in the
self…I was somehow not in a position to accept this two consecutive loss to
Argentina and Great Britain. The SELF-APPLIED-PRESSURE and the inexperience to
play SMART Hockey took away one medal from India but the Eves played a kind of
very good Hockey only to miss it out because the inexpertise did them badly and
dug their hopes.
Next it was the loss of Bajrang in the semis very badly and
when Vinesh lost her bout to that Belarussian wrestler with Deepak Punia too
losing the same in the play off for the Bronze, it was very hard to bear the
outcome and the total control of the body and the mind was lost.The sleeps
were gone and personally I could not sleep propwrly for a few days from August
4th to August 8th as the body got misbalanced due to INSOMNIA and the loss of the SLEEP.
To start with the two loss of Mary Kom and Amit Panghal in
boxing in the first half of thr Olympics 2021 completely took the mind off.
They were not a loser but they were made to lose their games in an manner which
always would defy the logics and the calculations of the points. That
was not acceptable in terms of accepting anything which differentiated the loss
and the wins…..
Ultimately when Bajrang lost in the semis and when the Eves
lost in the play-off the entire mind , as if as it appeared was completely FREEZED. It
was not at all there to think and do anything worth calling it something…..
The date August 7th
2021…..
As it is the sleep broke up at about 4.00AM and it was a long
session of going back to cool the mind with the YOGA “ ALOM-VILOM ” but that
also could not produce any soothing effect . Then it was drinking some water to
normalize the internal part of the body but without effect. Thereafter it was
again going back to that breathing in and exhaling which again bore no fruit.
At about six in the morning that day it was again feeding
the pigeons with rice, and bajra, which I do to make the planets Sun, Mercury
and the Venus strong to get the blessing from the nature.No sooner that I laid
those seeds for them to feed on them , there were TWO pigeons which came flying
to the feeds laids for them.One was quite BIG in shape and very STOUT and the
other one was a baby pigeon….. I could make it out that ONE very HEAVY WEIGHT
kind of a medal along with a BRONZE would come to us that day….. That made the
things very simple. Thereafter it was the feeding of a dog with the biscuits
and back to the place, the home.
That very day it was
tense and it was becoming very hard and difficult to pass the time as the
matches were scheduled at after 4.00PM . Tried to eat something to pacify the
burns of the stomach but again the misbalance of the appetite and the hunger
that was not all there, and which had dried off did not make the things easy. I
was finding it very hard to eat anything since August 4th 2021 to
August 8th 2021 as the body was devoid of any sleep, ant peace and
the mind was full of anxiety with frustration creeping in deep.
Finishing my bath and completing all the other activities
which includes the pooja-paat I
tried it out to drink a glass of JEERA-JAL but even that could not help as the
taste of the mouth had disappeared .It was again back to devotion….
The Hanuman Chalisa which I recite everyday BY-HEART was
being recited and maybe it was between 8
to 11 times that I did that. The entire CHALISA in terms of the DOHAS and the CHAUPAL are of 1200 stanzas, and I was
continuously reciting that .The COUNTS were forgotten but kept on doing that …….
Then it was followed by the SHIV-MANTRA and the
GANESH-MANTRA and I do not know for how many a times I did that till about
4.00PM starting it and all these from 12.00PM on that day….. The mind was FULL
of ANXIETY and ASTONISHMENT and the mouth too, in an attempt to do all these by
then had become very HRAD and at one point of a time it became immovable…..
Bajrang gave a fw anxious moment against that Kazak
wrestler. When his leg was locked and trapped by that Kazakh wrestler it
appeared that the life had GONE. There were nothing for a few seconds when that
happened but when he broke off and got that PASSIVE POINT the breathing became
a bit easy…..
His victory and that Bronze somehow put some life and the
blood back to the body which had lost all it’s ebbs by then and it appeared
that there was NOTHING at all that remained in the body…..
Finally the FIRST throw of Neeraj which I could not see it
because of some excitement that Bajrangs victory brought and I was trying to
get one of my friend at Kerala over the phone to convey him this news as he
does not possesses a TV and he was also excited to know about Bajrang’s news
apart from flashing this news on my tweet page I missed that 87.03 metreds
marks of the throw but by the trime when he came back for his second and threw
it to a distance of 87.58 metres I was sure that the GOLD would be ours and it
was at the end though Neeraj’s throw for the third, fourth and the fifth
completely shocked me to see that he was finding it HARD even to cross the 76
metres…. I could understand that after that throw oh 87.58 metres his body had
nothing in it to carry further as his energy was swapped with nothing remaining in his body…..
At last the GOLD came to us but by that time I had to go to
a doctor….. My entire brain wa NULL because of the tense moment that I went
through August 4th 2021, to theend of August 7th, 2021…..
The body because of not taking the food as the internal system got dried and
the insomnia that it caused has been freezed for good. The
misbalanced and the disposition of the internal system of the body ultimately
played on me with the kind of anxious moment that it caused to me…..
I got myself examined by the Doctor and he advised me to
take deep sleep and if possible a few pieces of sweets as that might help to
add some weight to the body beside a peg of a very HARD drink, very HARD so
that the intoxication might cause and help to sleep ….
Pic - :: To Normalcy With The " GRUBS " To Balance The Body as Advised By The Medic
That is what I did and after two days I feel normal though
the internal part of the body, ie , the stomach still is not in the balanced state
as the loss of appetite and the loss of the electrolyte would take a few more
days to come back to the normalcy…..
If this can happen to me I CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT MIGHT BE
GOING IN THE MIND AND THE PHYSICAL STATE OF THOSE ATHLETES WHO PLAYED AND
MISSED IT OUT…..
Nevertheless the moment of the Hockey finals of Moscow 1980,
those last five minutes and the experience that I had to learn from it then,
and of the same now for FOUR different events as mentioned above…… it had made
me BRAIN DEAD … for at least a few days ……
THE NATION WOULD HAVE BEEN
CRIPPLED TO MOVE AHEAD IF THAT “ BRONZE ” IN “ HOCKEY ” AND “ WRESTLING ” AND IF THAT " GOLD " HAD NOT COME
TO INDIA…..
HOCKEY, WRESTLING and that GOLD has made INDIA to breathe again and walk ahead, that I can assure and understand ….. Thanks and THANKS again to those who brought it over here.....
“ SAMARITANS SHOULD AWARD THE EVES HOCKEY AS SOME CONSOLATION
BECAUSE OF THE REASONS OF SMILE THAT THEY PUT IT ACROSS TO THE FACE OF THE
ENTIRE NATION…….”
March 15th
1975 when India won her ONLY ever WORLD CUP HOCKEY title till date to July 29th 1980 to
again August 7th 2021……
for me it was the SUMMER , RAINY and the WINTER of sports , for me, in my life
so far though the month of AUGUST
2021 would be the “
AUGUST-KRANTI ” for the Indians
that would be associated with the Indian
sports….
That sums up it and that is all .....
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 .
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