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Hockey is not our national game---Ministry

Hockey is not our national game --- Ministry

                     India won six consecutive hockey gold medals at Olympics between 1928 and 1956. It is our national game and that's why whenever the men in blue show their dribbling skill on the green turf at a Games venue, out heart goes out to them. Not just the sport buffs but students in every school have at some point of time learnt these facts. Now, it's time, however for some unlearning.

                   Hockey is not the national game of the country! And the revelation has come straight from the Union ministry of youth affairs. The ministry says that country does not have a national game as no game has been notified as such.

                   The response from the ministry has come on an RTI query from a ten-year-old girl, Aishwarya Parashar, who has grown learning in school books that hockey is the national game of the country and was the first non-European team to be a part of the Indian Hockey Federation. The Indian men's field hockey team is the most successful team in Olympic history with 8 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze medals.
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