A " FEEL " Of Possessing " PEARL " - From " DHYAN " To " DHAN " :: Indian Hockey - Sudden Death Or Extra Time





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From Dhyan To Dhan :: Indian Hockey – Sudden Death Or Extra Time

The " UNIQUE - SELLING - PROPOSITION " Of This Book  :: Must For Everybody 

To start with, those  WHO WISHES TO BUT THIS BOOK FROM ABROAD - ALL THE NECCESSARY MEANS WOULD BE MADE BY THE PUBLISHERS TO END THIS ONE TO THEM BY POST  Hence do not be under any impression that the book would not reach you at all. It will reach you all at abroad by every mean .

This book has been completely  " REFURBISHED "  by me and has been re-printed  by  " BOOKSCLINIC ", Bilaspur , Chhattisgarh , by Mr Hitesh Bisen whose phone number is 91 - 95891 :: 33777   and is available at  " AMAZON " 

This book has SO  a many a " DIFFERENT " kinds of " STUFFS " to read that one should read it if he is really a Hockey " BUFF "  and if he really wishes to know anything and everything about INDIAN HOCKEY .

Priced at Rupees 700=00 and bearing 622 pages this book is the  " CHEAPEST " amongst all the books written in Hockey , beside this book is the  " MOST - VOLUMINOUS "  written in the               " ANNALS "  of any Hockey book written by  " ANYBODY " in the " WORLD "  so far This book without  " BRAGGING " . I would say is a  " BOOK  - FOR -  EVERYBODY "

To start with let me make a request to the family members of Balbir Singh Senior.  DO NOT BUT THIS BOOK ON HOCKEY AUTHORED BY ME AT ALL. FOR IF YOU DO THAT YOU WILL SUFFER HEART ATTACK AND I DO NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN TO YOU ALL.

Now comes the story of the book on Hockey that I have wriiten or authored as one would like to say that. How did it happen. Before I write all these I have another REQUEST to make

 THIS BOOK ON HOCKEY IS AVAILABLE ON THE AMAZON AND FLIPKART. IF YOU ALL WANT LESS THAN NINE COPIES THEN GET IT FROM THE AMAZON OR THE FLIPKART, BUT IF YOU WISH TO OBTAIN MORE THAN TEN COPIES , THEN GET IT FROM THE PUBLISHER, BOOKSCLINICS, BILASPUR , CHATTISGARH,  WHOSE ADDRESS COULD BE OBTAINED FROM THE GOOGLE. They have their  offices at Bilaspur, Chattisgarh 

Now comes the entire story and the gist of how did I write this book.

WHAT MADE ME TO WRITE THIS BOOK-::

Well, it was the year 1975. India had just won the WORLD CUP HOCKEY on March 15th 1975. I was based at Pathakhera Coal Mines where my Father was a Senior Executive Engineer ( E & M ) in that mines.

There was a Doctor, the Colliery Doctor, Mr Gajendragadkar whose nephew was to undergo the Thread Ceremony, ( Janeo ) as we call it at Gwalior. He pushed my Father to allow me to go to Gwalior  for the same.At last it was decided that I would be allowed to go to attend the ceremony. That was the FIRST time in my life that I went to Gwalior , and during my stay over there, I was LUCKY to meet and shake hands with Shivaji Pawar, the player who was the member of that Indian World Cup Hockey winning squad. 

It was summer at the peak and these area of Madhya Pradesh are at the highest peak during the summer when it simmers. . The temperature by then was about 42 degree and the scorch was unbearable. We started for Gwalior by the Dakshin Express . During those days in 1975 there use to be only one train which would connect the  Southern  part of India to New Delhi and that train was to cut through Nagpur, and then  , pass by these area of M.P and again would touch Itarsi and Bhopal before it reached Delhi. Obviously that was the train we started for.

Sitting in an unreserved compartment and fighting the heat it was unbearable for us to continue further and we decided to break it at Jhansi . After meeting a relative of the Gajendragadkar at Jhansi we had enough of time at our disposal so we decided to meet Ashok Kumar at his Jhansi residence at Sipri Bazar.

We Met Major Dhyanchand Instead Of Ashok Kumar - ::

We reached House Number 296 at Sipri Bazar at Jhansi and instead of meeting Ashok Kumar we met Major Dhyanchand .  THIS WAS THE MAN ABOUT WHOM WE HAD HEAD A LOT WHILE DOING OUR STUDIES AT SCHOOL THEN. We were SHOCKED to see the WIZARD of Hockey cladded in a very ordinary vest cladded in a Khahi short and taking care of the plants of his garden at that scorching summer at his residence at Jhansi.

When we introduced ourself and asked about Ashok, we were told that Ashok mostly stays at Delhi then as that was his CAMP-OFFICE for expediting his duties. Finding no other alternative we decided to LEACH on to the Major who was the wizard of Indian and WORLD Hockey.

Excitement Was In The Air While Talking To The Major - ::

Being only 16 years of age then and watching the WIZARD of WORLD HOCKEY in front of my eye as a school kid who was only 16 years of age by then,  I WAS SWEPT OF MY TOE. Being a very keen 





Pic - :: The Front Cover And The Back Cover Of My Book On Indian Hockey At present the book is sold by BOOKSCLINIC, BILASPUR , CHATTISGARH 

enthusiast of sports and having then represented my School team in as many as SIX different event of sports for the School team, my excitement was unstoppable though FLABBY. There were as usual some talks on Hockey and he was softly listening to us and was answering in the most prudent manner with a lot of meaning attached to the same.

He could very easily make out that he was amidst two young coot who did not play Hockey at all by then but were a GREAT Hockey enthusiast. He actually took the TWO BULLS by their HORNS so far and for all the time that we were with him that day.

 I WANT TO WRITE A BOOK ON HOCKEY - ::

Infact till that moment I was possessing some records on Hockey and a few on Indian hockey.  Eagerly and losing my patience amidst all the excitement I just said him that  I WANT TO WRITE A BOOK ON HOCKEY AND I HAD MANY A RECORDS IN TERMS OF THE STATISTICS FOR THE SAME

The Mojar and the wizard of WORLD Hockey just looked at me. Then he asked these few questions one by one. The first was WHAT WAS MY AGE . The second was  WHAT IS THE AGE OF INDIAN HOCKEY. The last was HOW MANY YEARS OF HOCKEY DID HE IE Mr DHAYNCHAND PLAY FOR INDIA AND IN INDIA.

I was 16 by then. India and her Hockey were aged 47 years of age by then and I did not know how many years of Hockey did the Major play in his entire career.

Hearing to me he said that - :

1). Do you know that I played for 25 years  of Hockey for India and THIRTY years in toto, from 1918 to 1948,   for the various teams of India,

2). That He had scored 1248 goals in 1246 matches of Hockey that he played

3). That he had scored 589 goals in 189 Internationals for India

He plainly said me that out of the 47 years of Indian Hockey in terms of its age he had served the Indian Hockey for 25 years.   WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW ANY FACTS ABOUT INDIAN HOCKEY WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO WRITE IN YOUR BOOK. DON’T YOU THINK THAT YOU WOULD  BE MAKING A “ FOOL ” OF YOURSELF.

A PLAIN ADVICE GIVEN TO ME BY THE WIZARD

Hearing to me the Wizard advised me that DO THE RESEARCH OF INDIAN HOCKEY FOR 47 YEARS BEFORE YOU WRITE A BOOK ON HOCKEY.

There are INNUMEROUS SKELETON IN THE CUBBOARD, AND THERE ARE MANY SKELETONS, UNDER THE CRUST OF THE EARTH OF INDIAN HOCKEY. BETTER TRY TO FIND OUT BEFORE EMBARKING FOR YOUR  YOUR JOURNEY ON THE BOOK OF INDIAN HOCKEY.

Well If I remember that was May 14th 1975 that I was talking to him. From May 14th 1975 to May 28th 2022 and finally on October 19th 2022, it took me exactly 47 years and a few days to write this book on Hockey and this by FAR IS THE BEST BOOK ON HOCKEY AND THE BEST AMONGST THE ENTIRE  “ SIX ” THAT I HAVE WRITTEN

The Problems That I faced While Completing this Book-::

I did not have anybody to support me. All the typing, editing, subbing and finally selecting the space for affixing the photos is what I had to do, singlehandedly and without recieving any support from anybody.

The problem initially was that I selected FIFTY CHAPTERS for the book,  based on various facts and incidents that related and those which relates to Indian hockey. . That would have turned the book to about 1000 pages. From that I had to delete about 17 chapters to complete the book. That would be around 650 pages which again would be too large and too voluptuous in terms of the volume to read the book. I finally rejected eight of those chapters before choosing the final TWENTY THREE for the book.

The overall herculean job to delete those TWENTY SEVEN chapters really was like fixing the HEART OF THE GOAT TO THE DISPLACED HEART OF THE MAN, IN THE BODY OF A MAN , TO MAKE HIM TO SURVIVE.  THE HEART TRANSPLANTATION WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO HARD A TASK THAT MY BOOK ON HOCKEY WAS IN TERMS OF DELETING THOSE CHAPTERS ?.

Choosing Those Photos For The Book - ::

I always had it in mind that THIS BOOK WOULD POSSESS PHOTOS WHICH WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS THE MOST EVER " EXCLUSIVE " PHOTOS THAT ANY BOOK WOULD CONTAIN .

There are 73 photos in the book.  HOWEVER THERE ARE FOURTEEN EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS THAT THE BOOK CONTAINS.

For example the AUTOGRAPH of those ELEVEN players who played in the FINAL XI in that India-Germany match at Berlin in 1936, the stick by which Ashok Kumar had scored that victorious goal for India in the 1975 World Cup Hockey Finals, on March 15th 1975 , the ball by which Balbir Singh Garewal had scored that goal which fetched India her FIRST GOLD in the Finals of the Hockey for the GOLD for India’s maiden Asian Games Hockey title, and the maiden Indian Eves Hockey team that participated in the inaugural World Cup,  etc to just state about the photos that the book carries.



Pic - :: The Stick By Which Ashok Kumar Had Scored That Victorious Goal In That World Cup Hockey Triumph For India On March 15th 1975 

 These are the OSTENTATIOUS photos that the book carries and there are about 73 of such photos . The photos described above are the EXCLUSIVE, which are 15 in numbers,  and there are about  58 other photos which are worth watching. That is the PEARL that the book contains.


Pic - That Ball Which Balbir Singh Garewal Put Into The Pakistani Net In The 119th Minutes To Fetch India Her Maiden Asian Games Gold Medal In 1966 

What Is The Book That It Carries-::

The book is DIVIDED into TWO parts. From the FIRST chapter to about chapter number 17, the book states all about  INDIA AND HER GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENT IN HOCKEY WITH ALL THE  “ MURDEROUS-NEGATIVITY ” SURMOUNTING THE INDIAN HOCKEY INSPITE OF INDIA WINNING SO MANY OLYMPIC GOLD AT A HEAP.


Pic - The Autograph Of The Victorious Indian Hockey Team That Won The Gold By Defeating Germany By 8-1 In The Finals Of 1936 Olympics 

It tells all about Indian Hockey at the SKY NUMBER NINE   and the reasons about  WHY DID IT FALL FROM THAT POSITION TO REACH TO THE END OF THE HELL AND WHO AS WELL AS WHAT WERE THE FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SAME.

EVERY PROOF in terms of the photos that supplements about what has been written in the book are attached to the chapters and that makes it SAUCY as well as ITCHY to feel about the same.

The second part is the “ GRANDEURS ” AS WELL AS THE “ PEERS ” WHO WERE THE AS ONE CALLS THEM, THE “ PEARLS ” IN THE       “ OYSTER ” OF INDIAN HOCKEY, and it is  all about them. Yes that is it .  The second part from the chapter number 18 to chapter number 22 describes all about them .

TWO CHAPTERS THAT DETAILS ALL THE SOLUTION THAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE  WORLD HOCKEY & INDIAN HOCKEY THE “ BEST ”

There are two chapters that completely diagnoses the ROTS that is going in the world of Hockey and Indian Hockey and it completely gives a solution as to how could that be completely VITALISED to make Hockey the BEST ever sports in the world. The basics of hockey from A To Z about what are the DISEASES that has engulfed the WORLD HOCKEY and in what manner that it completely has MURDERED the Indian Hockey are detailed in CHAPTER NUMBER 12 and Chapter Number 23 . This is the HALLMARK and the BLOOD of the book.

Basically Indian Hockey has been all about POLITICS, REGIONALISM, BIASED ACTIONS , FAVOURITSM , EGO and  SUPRESSIONS that has been very minutely , BRAVELY and MEANINGFULLY asserted with all description in the book with all proof depicted and this makes the BOOK a kind of a book which is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from any other book that has been written on Hockey.

ODE TO WOMEN HOCKEY - ::

One full chapter consisting of TEN pages has been dedicated and written about the Women’s Hockey of the 1974-75 team which NOBODY TALKS ANYTHING ABOUT IT, but which HAD PUT INDIA ON THE HIGH PEDESTAL OF WORLD HOCKEY.


Pic :: The Indian Eves Team Of 1974-75 Which Finished Fourth At The World Cup And Won The " FIRST " Gold Medal In The Begum Rasool International Hockey Tournament 

That very incident and that very story of the eves placing India on such a high pedestal is written and THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK THAT CARRIES A LITTLE ABOUT WOMEN’S HOCKEY  IN TERMS OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENT

People might have not heard about Ajinder Kaur, Rekha Mandappan , Geeta Sarin,  Chanchal Koli, Madam Rupa Bhasin  , but these are the ladies who had sown the seed of Eves Hockey, directed by Mr Gurcharan Singh Bodhi,  as the Chief Coach for India to achieve and for the eves to PLATFORM the eves Hockey for and in India. This book describes those glorious moment in detail and by all the mean showering all the respect for the eves Indian Hockey

HEADACHE:: Well It Comes But Not To Fire On Them

Well, when you are on a mission, all , with nobody to assist you, you are walking amidst the FIRE which is there to burn you and reduce to ASH, and that is what was happening to me when I was authoring the book. Over it was the HEADACHE to get those photos which I very badly wanted for my book.  Initially it was very hard to get those and I had literally  decided to give away writing the book.

Luckily I was at Lucknow for the K.D.Singh Babu Hockey Centenary and I could manage to get the FOREWORDS from Ashok Kumar Dhyanchand, and that gave me the mental strength to travel to Inam-Ur-Rehman, based at Bhopal ,  to get the PREFACE for the book from him..That actually set the ball rolling.

DISEASE THAT COMPLETELY UPROOTED ME-::

While authoring the book, I was caught by a MYSTERIOUS URINAL INFECTION. That was HORRIBLE.  Every TWO minutes I had to run to the toilet to release the urine and that INFECTED and completely broke my health. The concentration and its level got absolutely destructed and grinded to dust.  The pain was unbearble. Amidst the disease I had to complete the task as the dead line too was nearing its end.

I was completely out of BREATH and out of the control that I always maintain for my body. This disease shattered me. Again there was a trip to Bali, Indonesoia which I had to take with the family. I was catastrophe and completely destructed about what to do. Ultimately my FAITH in the SPIRITUALISM , and my FAITH on the ALMIGHTY proved everything wrong and I could pursue my task though with a lot of difficulties and uncertainty.

The publisher end too was havoc.It always brought in those kind of a situation where the elephant would pass through but its tail would be trapped and the elephant would get struck. Mentally there were many a times were I felt to give it away but my wife would always egged in to complete the task.

The Cover Designed By Me But Executed To Finality By My Wife-::

Based on the depiction and the drawing that I gave it to the publisher he or they came out with a cover for which I had to pay extra in terms of Rs 1,000=00.This was OUTRIGHTLY rejected by my wife. We later, infact she moved to a graphic designer whose charge was Rs 500=00 but who actually came out with the cover that is there in/on the book.  The TRI-COLOUR depicts the cover and its importance to Indian Hockey.When I showed it to Inam-Ur-Rehman and Ashok Kumar they were so thrilled.That made me to finally choose the cover and give my nod for the same.

There were so many a hiccups and many such MIND BLASTING moments fill with tremendous anger that always crept in, due to adversaries caused by the publisher,  but I had to finally gulp those poisonous anger and had to move forward to complete the project.

This publisher is a SNAKE which bites and STABS from the back.I have had many moments of head hitting the wall against him, but as I was FOXED so cleverly by him, I went ahead with the project. I will get him back to teach him some lessons whenever I find an appropriate time. 

THIS PUBLISHER, CLEVER FOX , CHENNAI, IS A WOLF UNDER THE BARK OF A SHEEP.Those who wish to get in touch with him for publication of their books, they may KINDLY note my advise- DO NOT BELIEVE IN THIS SNAKE, A TWO-MOUTHED - ONE 

 This is the reason that with effect from January 19th 2024 , I have changed my publisher to book the order and expedite the book to BOOKSCLINIC, BILASPUR, CHATTISGARH

STILL - I WOULD LIKE TO " THANK " THE PUBLISHER FOR BRINGING OUT THIS BOOK

Finally when the book was released on the eve of DHANTERAS I was relieved by all the mean. I felt like the BLESSING OF THE ALMIGHTY FINALLY HAS ARRIVED TO BE WITH ME FOR THE FUTURE.

Forty Seven ( 47 ) Years It Took Me To Finally Complete The Book-::

It took me 47 years in all to complete the book.Collecting those photos from various sources, from the friends and from the agencies took me about 28 years. Ashok Kumar to some extent and Aslam Sher Khan too proved the HANDY. The " inputs " of Inam-Ur-Rehman and Balbir Singh garewal really were the OXYGEN for me to feel about to complete the book and fill it with meaningful informations. 

Also the words of Mr Narendra Modi in his MANN KI BAAT  where he had urged upon the Indians to come up with something DIFFERENT and SPECTACULAR in this AZADI KE AMRIT VARSH made me walk that hard but those extra mile. It was like trampling by the death , that the death could do it to me that I felt but at last I HAD THE LAST LAUGH

All is well that ends well and that did hold true for me.

Well the BOOK is available at Amazon and at Flipkart. It is priced at Rs 700=00 per copy. If you wish to place the order for less than NINE book than these two agencies Flipkart, and Amazon are the answer.

If you wish to have more than TEN ( 10 ) , then fall back to the publisher BOOKSCLININC PUBLISHING NEAR PANCHMUKHI HANUMAN MANDIR MANGLA ROAD KUDUDAND BILASPUR, CHATTISGARH  whose address is depicted on the Google and they have THEIR  offices running at BILASPUR, CHATTISGARH . You can fall onto him  to buy the book and If you really read the book- YOU WOULD GET THE PEARLS THAT ARE THERE IN THE OYSTER.  For that is how you would feel like after you finish reading the book 

 That is it 

Regards and Thanks

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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 FIVE  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, GOLDEN QUOTES on Inspiration, Sorrow, Peace and Life, published by B.F.C Publications, Lucknow, and QUOTES:: Evolution and Origin of Management Electives by Clever Fox Publishing, Chennai and From Dhyan To Dhan :: Indian Hockey - Sudden Death Or Extra Time published by Clever Fox Publishing House  . He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .






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