NATIONAL GAME OR SHAME?

I or any Indian would like to say these words about the national game, but its true that it is the matter of national shame that Indian Hockey is seeing these days and this has became the national shame.

What ever game we choose, we have to be young to play. it means that we give that sport the most important years of our lives which we could use for doing any other job also.A country which has the richest cricket board and cricketers not only earn in millions but become the heart beat of everyone,there the hockey team has to strike for their due payments.

We can say that its a market game.Market can make anything big or cheap.and right now the market is supporting only cricket.

Hockey is our national game but we don't have anything to say except those eight golds those were won by our team in the last century.For this our governments are the most responsible.What else you can except from the sports in a country where the chives of the sports do not belong to that particular sport,more over the chair person of these organisations come from politics.

Politics is not even able to control the nation then how they can control the sports? no wonder the politicians have made the sports more political than sporty.We can see the examples in the Indian Cricket team where the better play is not the security of the selection in the team.

Not only hockey, but all the sports except cricket are suffering with the government's ignorance.In my opinion hockey players have done the right thing by protesting this way before the world cup.The great Bhagat Shing said that we need to produce a blast to make dumbs listen.

What more shameful can be for us that a Pakistani singer Salma Aga has announced to help Indian hockey,she belongs to a country whose financial condition is one of the worst in the world and also not a friend of India.We should salute her for spirit.Many other millionaire Indians have asked to help hockey that is a good thing for the future of the game.

Anyways the board and the team has reached a decision But I'm worried also that this is not the permanent solution.This seems to be more complicated after the world cup.

Finally,hockey is our national game and it needs to be encouraged both by the government and the business houses as they do with cricket.It needs to be glamorized so that there would be more chances for the hockey players to earn like any other cricketer.