In my earlier post, I wrote about national language of India.
Today, I am writing about national game of India. In India, cricket is like a
religion but hockey was considered as a national game. I am saying “considered”
because hockey is NOT a national game of India. This is quite surprising;
rather I say shocking because everybody learned in the school textbook that
hockey is national game of India. Thanks to RTI (Right to Information) act and
the girl who filed an RTI query.
VIIth class student, Aishwarya Parashar filed an RTI
query requesting information on national anthem, symbol, game, bird, animal and
flower. In the reply of this query, ministry of youth affairs and sports
cleared that India has NO national game; this means hockey is not our
national game.
Our school textbook
claims that hockey is our national game. Such spreading of erroneous knowledge
through the textbooks reminds me the funny sentence written on the T-shirt – “I
was born intelligent but education ruined me”.