EXCLUSIVE: When Pakistan’s Ali Dara Helped Hockey Wizard Major Dhyan Chand Get Back Rs 13000 After Nearly 40 Years
Ali Dara was Major Dhyan Chand’s India teammate during their gold medal-winning campaign in 1936 Olympics. Dara led Pakistan 12 years later at the 1948 London Olympics.
New Delhi: After Ali Iqtidar Shah Dara won an Olympic gold with the Indian hockey crew, little did he know that he would be representing a one amongst a alternative united states on the Olympics after World War II in 1945. With World War II lasting six years from 1939 to 1945, no Olympic Video games were performed in 1940 and 1944. Ali Dara, who became also a serving officer in the Indian Army as Dhyan Chand, opted to proceed in Pakistan after the partition. Reasonably, the likes of Dhyan Chand, who became Dara’s teammate in 1936 Video games, became on the opponent dugout in London through the 1948 Video games.
Put up-1948 Olympics, Dhyan Chand and Ali Dara never obvious every completely assorted for 26 years till in 1974 when each and every met at Indira Gandhi’s bungalow. Regardless of the great gap, Dhyan Chand and Ali Dara’s bond remained clone of it became the latter, who helped the ‘hockey wizard’ with a long-standing bank count.
The incident dates lower to come again to round 1935 when Dhyan Chand became posted just by the Indian Army in Western Frontier in Quetta (now a factor of Pakistan). “On the time, anything thing revenues my father used to get, it became deposited in the bank there. My father stayed in that space for round 4 to five years. After the partition in 1947, my father’s 13 thousand rupees in the bank obtained stuck,” Dhyan Chand’s son Ashok Kumar told India.com in an one amongst a alternative interplay on the eve of Countrywide Sporting concerns to do Day.
It became a serious setback for Dhyan Chand in accordance to his son as he became the sole true bread earner of the family in the interim. Dhyan Chand wrote a alternative letters to each and every the governments and likewise the humans in the bank but to no avail. Then once more, it became Ali Dara who obtained here to the rescue after almost forty years.
“I still protect in intellect in 1974, when our All-Asian star crew became made just by Ali Dara, Dhyan Chand met him at former PM Indira Gandhi’s bungalow,” Ashok recalled. “At some level of that meeting, Dhyan Chand observed, “Yaar Daare, jab se main nikla hu, mera fauj ka tankhe us bank mein jama hae, wo aaj tak mujhe nehi mila (Pal, accordingly of the reality that the time I obtained here out of that united states, my revenues from the Army obtained stuck in the bank and I haven’t obtained it but regardless of a alternative attempts)”.
“I don’t what Ali Dara did lower to come again domestic, but he made self-assured that Dhyan Chand obtained his money lower to come again in his checking account. It became an great gesture from him and the variability of main thing for our family,” he delivered. Countrywide Sporting concerns to do Day is selected August 29 every year to commemorate the birthday of Indian hockey legend Quintessential Dhyan Chand.
For the unknown, Ashok is a former hockey global who became universal for his appropriate capabilities and ball manipulate. He scored the winning cause in the final of the 1975 World Cup in opposition to Pakistan. It became India’s handiest hockey World Cup win till date. In 2024, Ashok became awarded the Hockey India Quintessential Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award.
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