Indian women's hockey: An Olympic story of grit, camaraderie and family

Hockey India has done what many others have failed to for a long while - give equal funding to teams of both sexes in preparation for the Olympics

While comparisons are inevitable, in this case “life imitating art”, “the real following the reel”, the Indian women hockey team’s “Chak De” of Australia in the quarter finals of the Olympics is a good time to pause and reflect on all that has happened. If the men’s dismissal of Great Britain — what with the buildup involving a full-on invoking of the colonial past — was fist-pumping passion and confirmation that, yes, maybe #ItsComingHome, the women’s response to that has been significantly bigger. In scale, shock value, achievement, astonishment and everything in between.

Human beings play sports, but confirmation of success