As is always the case with the Indian hockey squad, the 1975 World Cup team too comprised players of different beliefs and religions. To unite everyone and instil a sense of purpose among the players, ...

As Balbir Singh Sr left this world for the heavenly abode, this reporter brings his life to TOI readers through the stories and anecdotes that were told over a decade before his death. Widely regarded ...

Balbir Singh Senior’s rise from being a hockey player to earning the tag of legend started from the tragedy of partition when more than half of the Punjab’s national championship winning squad decided ...

One of India's greatest hockey players, Balbir Singh Sr, died at a hospital here on Monday after battling multiple health issues for over two weeks. The legend was 96 and is survived by his daughter ...

Imagine the pinnacle of a hockey player's career. You would probably be thinking of an Olympic final. Now imagine featuring in three successive finals, and being a part of three campaigns where your ...

Kolkata, May 25 : The old adage goes give him an inch and he'll take a mile. As a prolific goalscorer, Balbir Singh Senior was exactly that. A legend who could sound the board from anywhere, the ...

The murder of a Sikh immigrant, shot in an act of deluded racist revenge after 9/11, brought Sikhs and Muslims in Arizona together – but the fear remains At a gas station in Mesa, Arizona, more than 2 ...

The shine of that 1948 Olympic gold won't be the same as ever, with it's proud owner not there anymore to wear it. But it will be a rich tribute to talk about those seventy minutes on August 12, 1948, ...

Balbir Singh Sr. was arguably one of the greatest hockey players to emerge out of India and was born on October 10th in a village named Haripur Khalsa in Punjab in the year 1924. The veteran hockey ...

On Sept. 15, 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi was outside of the Chevron gas station he owned in Mesa, Ariz., when he was shot and killed. Balbir was Sikh and wore a turban. In one of the first hate crime ...