(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated April 21, 2008) India’s glorious hockey journey—a medal in the Olympics from 1928 to 1980 except once in 1976, including eight gold—would not have started but for a friendship between two British colonels who were part of Gallipoli tragedy during the First World War. advertisement Their friendly gesture in 1926, an Indian Army hockey team’s first tour of New Zealand—also a maiden foreign visit by any Indian hockey team—dug a bonanza. Even as the hosts were amazed at the classic hockey being showcased in front of their eyes,...
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