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Synopsis Jo nahin ho sakta hai, wahi to karna hai... Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) knows what How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?
it’s like to come back from the dead. The ex Indian Captain has now come back in the avatar of the Can’t see the wood for the trees.
Coach of the Indian Women’s National Hockey team. A team that exists more on paper and less in Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
reality. The team is a rag-tag bunch of girls with their own agenda. A bunch of girls who have When conquering proconsuls returned to pagan Rome to celebrate their triumph, custom was to assign each of them a slave whose only function was to remind the conqueror that the greatest human glory passes quickly. This slave would crouch in the victorious warrior’s chariot, whispering as the conqueror rode along triumphantly: “Remember . . . remember thou art mortal.
forgotten what it is like to play for the love of the game. Of playing because you want glory for As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.
your country. Not because you want a pensioned job or a government flat. They have all forgotten the Don’t give other people a piece of your mind unless you can afford it.
sharp thrill of just holding the hockey stick, keeping their eyes on the ball and playing for all There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
they are worth. They have played every game but hockey to make sure they get selected every year in Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
the Indian National team. But what does it really mean to play for the Indian National team? To play Reasons For Low Activity & Service: 1. Lack of understanding. 2. Lack of acceptance. 3. Lack of obedience. 4. Lack of good works.
for India? Mujhe sirf ek mulk ka naam sunaai deta hai –India The girls have never known the There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
thrilling energy of being Team India. Of giving their all to see their country’s name on a trophy. Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
But Kabir Khan, once a captain, now forgotten, does. He knows what it takes to get there. And what Beware of, Had I wist.
it means to return empty handed. This time, he wants to make sure that it’s different. He knows The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it.
there are no second chances. Despite his past, he believes that if only the girls played as one, He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. KJV
anything would be possible. Because Kabir Khan believes that it is not that we can’t win. It’s just Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys
that we have never believed we can. Chak De India is the story of a coach’s fight of making his Two amateur artists were asked to paint something depicting “peace.” On the appointed day, both artists brought their paintings to be shown. One picture was of a quiet, rippleless lake. Here indeed was peace as seen by an artist. The other painting showed a gnarled tree standing on the precipice in a rugged canyon. Nearby was a thundering waterfall, and the river dashed on, angrily below. In the tree, near her nest, a bird was perched, singing above the clamor of the torrent of the water below. A sudden change in the wind could bring disaster to the frail limb upon which the bird and her nest were located. But instinctively she knew that if that happened, she and her young ones could use their wings and mount to the sky. Yes, the two artists had fulfilled what they had been asked to do. One painted a scene depicting the quiet beauty of peace. The other had seen the majestic splendor that accompanies inner peace.
team, Team India by overcoming their diverse backgrounds, by learning to use everything that life Filth is always a sign of weakness — in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
hurls on them as a secret weapon. It’s a story about honesty, sincerity and integrity. A story to I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
remind the nation of its national Character Sketch The Coach Shahrukh Khan as Kabir Khan Once the It is something to make two blades of grass grow where only one was growing, it is much more to have been the occasion of the planting of an oak which shall defy twenty scores of winters, or of an elm which shall canopy with its green cloud of foliage half as many generations of mortal immortalities.
hero of Indian Hockey, the best Centre forward in the world, the man a nation found a hero in. And It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.
the man it sentenced to hell. Now he has decided to make a last comeback to the game he once loved, An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
to reclaim his lost honour and prove his point to the nation he still loves. By doing the When you drink the water, remember the spring.
impossible. Making a rag-tag bunch of loser girls a team. And the World Champions. The Girls Preeti The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby – how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
Sabarwal Fair, Athletic, Stunning Position: Center Forward Jersey Number: 9 Home State: Chandigarh Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach, once we have left it, we can never return.
Preeti went to Sanawar, but on her way to Harvard from there, took a sharp left towards the Punjab Christmas and New Year Bells The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets round, From far and near, on mead and moor, Swell out and fail, as if a door Were shut between me and the sound: Each voice four changes on the wind, That now dilate, and now decrease, Peace and goodwill, goodwill and peace, Peace and goodwill, to all mankind. This year I slept and woke with pain I almost wish’d no more to wake, And that my hold on life would break Before I heard those bells again: But they the troubled spirit rule, For they controll’d me when a boy; They bring me sorrow touch’d with joy, The merry, merry bells of Yule. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
University and its hockey team for reasons best known to her. Chandigarh captain, she looks like The Chinese write the word crisis with two characters, on of which means “danger” and the other “opportunity.”
Princess Leia and plays like the terminator, the only one she’s close to is her iPod. Would you then Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
blame the rest of her mostly rural team-mates for calling her mem? She has a secret, but then, There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust in, Him who has released us.
that’s a secret. Komal Chautala Short, Tough Position: Right In Jersey Number: 8 Home State: Haryana Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world’s history.
The Rohtak Express, also known as chhokra in her village for her tomboyishness, and as chhipkali in Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
her team for her devious dribbling. Born to tough Jats, she has just one regret that she wasn’t born Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.
a boy. But she’s doing all she can to make up, including not using make-up. Ever! Bindia Naik Tough, If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
Seasoned Position: Center Half Jersey Number: 5 Home State: Maharashtra Experience corrupts, and too There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.
much experience corrupts completely. A veteran of field positions, federation politics and award Gardening can bring out the inner child, and sometimes, especially after all that time out in the hot sun, it can bring out the inner surrealist. When the urge comes over you to construct a zucchini zeppelin or a tomato truck, give in to your muse and then document [photograph] your masterpiece, preferably against an uncluttered background.
manipulations, she could make any team’s dirty tricks department proud, if she wasn’t the department To have more, desire less.
herself in real life. Vidya Sharma Mature, Experienced, Nice Position: Goalie + Captain Jersey The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Number: 18 Home State: Madhya Pradesh Just married. And it already looks like she will have to The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.
divorce hockey. She knows this is probably her last tournament but can she give up hockey for Arbol que crece torsido jamas su tronco se enderesa. A tree that grows crooked will never straighten its trunk.
marriage? Balbir Kaur Big, Intimidating Position: Left Defender Jersey Number: 3 Home State: Punjab How can you eat anything with eyes?
Known as tataiya, bhootni, rakshas and ghatotkach depending upon what she has done lately, everybody Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
in the team is terrified of her temper. Fearless, sometimes to the point of being brainless. She is There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
the team’s main hope against the giant Australian girls and the manly Argentinean zagalonas. Heart The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
of gold, in a body of armour-plated steel. Aliya Bose Sultry, Sexy, Carefree Position: Right Out You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Jersey Number: 7 Home State: West Bengal Sexy Aliya should have been born in the swinging 70’s. The I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn’t be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.
world is a winery of boys and she’s the taster-in-chief. And she takes her job very seriously. In To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.
spare time she also plays hockey, unfortunately she’s good at it, and so year after year, team Garlic is as good as ten mothers.
managers and coaches have tolerated her. Gunjan Lakhani Tall, Fast, Smooth Position: Right Half The Possible’s slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.
Jersey Number: 4 Home State: Andhra Pradesh This Hyderabadi potti has seen it all, because she knows Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
when to shut her eyes. Playing with seniors Bindia and Aliya has taught her only one thing there are His red right hand.
more games off the field than on it. And a smart player knows how to stay out to stay in. Rani A mother’s Love is something that no one can explain It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away… It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking… It believes beyond believing when the world around condemns, And it glows with all the beauty of the rarest, brightest gems… It is far beyond believing when the world around condemns, And it glows with all the beauty of the rarest , brightest gems… It is far beyond defining, it defies all explanation, and it still remains a secret like the mysteries of creation… A many-spendored miracle man cannot understand And another wondrous evidence of God’s tender guiding hand.
Dispotta Dark, Tall, Wiry Position: Right Defender Jersey Number: 2 Home State: Jharkhand What Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
Soimoi is undergoing now, Rani underwent when she moved from her jungle village to Ranchi Sports The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o’er the wide and winding Rhine.
School. And that makes her an expert on how to handle the city-breeds, or manhandle them if need be. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
She knows enough Hindi to offend anyone and enough English to defend herself, especially on the Every man has three characters: That which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
field. Soimoi Kerketa Dark, Sinuous Position: Substitute Jersey Number: 17 Home State: Jharkhand Who is the third who walks always beside you?
From Jharkhand Grameen Adivasi Balika Kalyan Kendra Vidyalaya on the edge of Ghamaorni jungle, The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
straight New Delhi. Dicey Hindi and devious English confound her as much as hair-raising roads, When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.
blood-curdling cars and monstrous skyscrapers. Not to mention the other creatures around her who No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.
call themselves girls. But she knows what to do with a stick and a ball. That she knows. Nethra Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Reddy Dark, Tall, Quiet Position: Left Out Jersey Number: 11 Home State: Andhra Pradesh The You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.
grounds-man’s little daughter who grew up in stadiums among players, and dreamt of being one Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
herself. All she ever wanted to do was to make her dad proud, and finally, she’s an inch away from Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.
her dream… Gul Iqbal Medium, Lovely Position: Left In Jersey Number: 10 Home State: Uttar Pradesh In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Hockey legend Zafar Iqbal’s grand-daughter. Her family’s history is Indian Hockey’s history. And Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
nobody ever lets her forget that. Whether she wants it or not. Molly Zimik Rough, Competent At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife’s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
Position: Left Half Jersey Number: 6 Home State: Manipur Mary Ralte Stocky, Reliable Position: The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.
Substitute Jersey Number: 15 Home State: Mizoram They are clubbed as one because that’s how they Integrity is the value we set on ourselves.
eat, live and behave. Their school books taught them that they are Indians but Indians taught them His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father’s life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.
otherwise. The only reason they play for the national team is that it is the only national team they Any speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
can play for. They’d love to belong, but not to the team that calls them ‘foreign’, and definitely We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
not to the people that call them ‘loose’. So they stick together and play. For the love of the game, Change in all things is sweet.
and the honour of their people.

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