The " FOUR " Unknown Game Without Any Games Association In India And Their " EXPLOSION " In International Games Competition
The Unknown Games Of India And Their National Contribution
India is a very peculiar country. Frankly speaking, this country runs on the
blessings of some of the deities and some of the Gods that were born here in
the primitive places and after some times there were some preachers and
reformers born, whose and theirs blessings are still hovering around to save this country
from a total disaster.
How can a country which has a population of 140 crores
survive without any real structure and infra –structure , without any diaphragm
and proper planning and systemization at
every level. It is really a miracle to even think of India surviving at such a
state of affair which is and which we can call it as a mess.
Here in this system of India and her organization, be it of
any body and any entity, the wonderful aspect that comes to the light at times
to see is that there is neither any body nor any structure, yet the country at
times produces miracles and we start biting our fingers or the nails to think
that HOW IT COULD BE POSSIBLE. It is because there is a systematic blessing
which comes to the nation from some spiritual power which blesses us always to
produce those kind of unbelievable results. THIS IS THE BEAUTY OF THIS COUNTRY, INDIA.
No doubt we even after 74 years of Independence and even
after so many years living under the umbrella of slavery, are still reeling
with some statistical numerals and output which makes us to live in wonder
.This no doubt makes India a NATION
OF MIRACULOUS WONDER.
If these miracles and the wonderful events that makes our
life to believe them as wonders are taken into account, there is one aspect
which we call it as sports, where inspite of having nothing even after the
passage of 74 years in terms of anything worth calling them as FULL-FLEDGED-SPORTS-AMENITIES,
we produce certain miracle to bag and corner the lime light.
I shall name atleast FOUR games and sports where we have NOTHING in terms of anything to
provide the facility to produce the champions or the medallions, yet we see
that wonderfully the medals have come to our country and this astonishes us
like anything.
I can name four sports, Wu-Shu, Lawn Bowl , Bridge, and
Sepak Takraw with another one which is some kind of a sports which is a
combination of kicks and karate where we do not even know about the existence
of the game or the sports that if ever it existed in this country and if ever
there is a body of association which conducts these games and sports, yet
surprisingly, whenever there is an
international event, we find our players taking part in the same and at times
by the surprise that or which the almighty can produce, we come up with some
medals in these games or sports.
Let me start from Wu-Shu.
Wu-Shu-:
I do not know from where this game has come to India. This
is not an Indian originated game at all. The manner in which it is played, it
appears that it has it’s origin somewhere in the Mongolian dominated nation,
which could be either Japan, Korea or
even China.
I was surprised during my visit to Lucknow during April in
2022 when I was at Lucknow to witness the All India K.D.Singh Babu Centenary
Hockey celebration. While my return to Jhansi, I had to take an intermittent
break at Jhansi to board another train.
At the waiting hall was a team from Bihar, the photos of the
competitors is illustrated here and one can look at the photo. The pictures
describes it all. This was the Bihar contingent of Wu-Shu that had participated
in the National Wu-Shu competition which was held somewhere at Haryana and the
team had won three medals in the nationals, was returning home. I was surprised
to see this team at the waiting hall at the Jhansi Railway waiting hall.
When I saw them, and approached them to know about who are
they and all about them , I was surprised to hear that this was the Bihar
contingent of Wu-Shu. When interrogated, I was stunned to find that-:
1).There is NOR any association and NIETHER any facility, which could be
construed as Association Of Bihar Wu-Shu
2). That there was NOTHING in terms of anything at Bihar for
these players to participate or practice.
3). That the entire funding of the team was personal
4).That the team traveled in unreserved compartment and
again were travelling back home in unreserved compartment and yet the team had
WON three medals, all through the individual effort.
5). That the coach of the team was a 20 years old guy who
spends his money, all by himself to learn more and more about this game to impart
the lessons to the ones who are the participants to fight in the ring.
THIS IS WHAT THE NITISH,
THE LALU AND THE ONES AT BIHAR HAVE DONE TO THE KIDS, THE COOTS AND THE
YOUNGSTERS TO GROW INTO A SPORTS PERSONALITY.
Take this projection to the entire country which we call it
as India. Try to find and figure it out. Try to find whether there is any
association that exists at India which promotes Wu-Shu NO AND NONE WOULD BE THE
ANSWER.
We find that and I have traced that India sends its
contingent to the Asian Games to and for the players to participate at Wu-Shu.
Just imagine a nation without any Wu-Shu body or any association sends its
athelete to participate in the Asian Games and at time even in other
continental games. How do you expect the athletes of these games to produce
wonder.Yet in the Asian level we have come up with some medals in the game.
IT IS SO MANY A YEARS THAT Wu-Shu AS
A GAME HAS BEEN RUNNING IN THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT ANYTHING WORTH CALLING IT A
SYSTEM THAT RUNS THE GAME.
Has any SPORTS MINISTER given any
thought on this matter. IS
THE PRESENT SPORTS MINISTER AWARE OF THE FACT. WHAT HAS HE DONE IN THIS MATTER
TO ATLEAST FORM A STRUCTURE FOR THE GAME. NOTHING AND “ NIL”
Do not the Sports Ministry and the Sports Minister
responsible for these kind of injudicious state of affair
that is running in this country. Aren’t they responsible for DISRESPECTING
their duty toward the NATIONAL SPORTS POLICY. They
are raking miliions after millions every years through various schemes but
where are the facility for the sportsman to train themselves and tune
themselves to the very HIGHEST echelon of the game.
WHO IS ANSWERABLE FOR THIS AND WHAT IS THE
PRESENT SPORTS MINISTER DOING. These are the national outcry and this ought
to be addressed by the Prime minister.
A CLASS EXAMPLE OF
BUILDING CASTLE IN “ AIR ”
The “
LAWN – BOWL ”
Now I come to the other game and that is the Lawn – Bowl. It
is a WONDER that this game has NO
and NOTHING that could be
described as ONE OF THE GAME THAT IS PLAYED AT INDIA .
Just scratch your head from the first day of the year to the
very last day of the year to find out any traces of Lan-Bowl and about anything
which could be termed as a infrastructure that ought to be provided to the game
to produce players in this game You will have no answer and nothing in terms of
anything as clue to the
question that I have posed to give an answer.
Yet MIRACLE
did happen in the foregone Commonwealth Games where we came up with GOLD MEDAL in the team event of
this game in the last CWG games.
HOW DID WE MANAGE TO BEAT
TEAMS LIKE ENGLAND, CANADA and WALES where there is such a
HUGE infra-structure to build the players to play this game and win the medals
for their nation , is something that NOBODY would have an answer.
Believe me- THERE IS NOTHING IN TERMS OF THE BODY, IN
TERMS OF THE LAWNS TO PRACTISE THIS GAME AND NO INFA STRUCTURE TO PLAY THE GAME.
Yet, we have come up wih a GOLD MEDAL in the last CWG games in this
competition. IS THAT NOT A MIRACLE ?.
Is is not the Ministry of Sports to answer about the FORT of the AIR that the nation has constructed to carry out these
games. By the way- WHAT IS THE
PRESENT SPORTS MINISTER DOING. IS HE TAKING A STROLL AT THE “ COOLEST-WAVE-GARDEN
” OF LORD SHIVA AT
SHIVALAYA
BRIDGE :: NOT SIGN
OF “ BRIDGING-THE-GAPS ”
The THIRD in the list is the game
which we call it as a BRIDGE, which is played by the card. The playing card is
perhaps the most useless game in this country.It has nothing to provide if you
just play for the heck of it .
Pic - : The " SURPRISE " " BRIDGE " TEAM THAT WON THE " GOLD " At The Asian Games
If you are a GAMBLER, well this game of gambling has many
other faces that India. There are games like “
HOUSIE” , “ TAMBOLA ” and at
times we call it “ BRAY ” which
again is a game played by the playing card, and that involves money to put in
it to play it.
There is a GAME
WHICH WE CALL IT AS “ BRIDGE ” One can play it putting money, one can without
putting any money in it. That depends on the one’s who wish to play it as a
gamble, or as a purity of sports.
It is said and believed that those who have a very STRONG
BRAIN with full of intelligence in it are the one’s who play
bridge.This is a game which requires a full of mental balance, a fulfilled intelligence
and the power of the brain to be at it’s best cleverness if at all one would
need to become a well defined champion in the field of games and sports that is
related to the game of bridge.
There is still no body that runs and controls the game.
There is no association that controls this game in India. There is no scope to
produce national level players in Bridge.
Yet for the MIRACLE- INDIA WON THE FIRST EVER BRIDGE GOLD
MEDAL IN THE LAST ASIAN GAMES.
It is well four years now that we are the ASIAN
GOLD MEDALLIONS in the game of Bridge. Very soon the nest Asian
games is round the corner. May I ask the
Sports Minister a QUESTION - WHO WERE THE PLAYERS AND THEIR NAME THAT
WON US THE ASIAN GAMES IN THE BRIDGE COMPETITION.
The last in the list is the game by the name of Sepak-Takraw.
This game took it’s root at India in and way back in
1982-83. Till the date more than FOUR
DECADES have passed. One WOULD NOT FIND AN ASSOCIATION OR A BODY THAT EXISTS
THAT RUNS THE GAME IN THIS COUNTRY.
Played by a ball made of STRAW and is the combination of
FOOTBALL AND KARATE KICKS, this game originated at Malaysia. To make it an
Olympic event, the EXHIBITION GAMES was played at the SEOUL OLYMPICS .It could not break through to make it’s
place as an Olympic event because the game of TENNIS took the place. It is played , depending on the
singles or the doubles with the doubles involving four players instead of two. THAT IS THE BASIC DIFFERENCE OF THE
DOUBLES SQUAD OF TENNIS, BADMINTON AND SEPAK TAKRAW.
The FIRST ever Sepak Takraw team was formed in 1983 which toured Malaysia in 1983.Two players of the team , one was Joseph Rao a Sports Reporter of the NAGPUR TIMES , then, and the other was a PHOTOGRAPHER, from Nagpur, were the member of this team. One could have and one cpould easily imagine what the Malaysian national team, where this game originated, might have made of that Indian team
Nothing to write more. We strongly are BLESSED by the deities
and by the God and Goddess at every level and at every stages that governs our life.
That is the foremost reason that we are still existing at earth , here at India.
For a country , whose, still 73% of the people are living
below the poverty line, who thrive by the food and the supplies that are
provided by the Government Of India , we really are LUCKY for the ALMIGHTY
to bless us all through for the miracles that we create- be at the international
competition or be it for anything , for and at any events that are being
conducted.
There is NO answer that the nation can expect from these one’s who govern the nation to build it or make it a strong nation.
Better DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING FROM THE SPORTS MINISTRY AS WELL.
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 FOUR 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 2012and GOLDEN QUOTES of Inspiration, Sorrow, Peace and Life. He possesses an experience of about 35 years in Marketing .
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