The game which requires more understanding than enthusiasm, the one which involves more fouls than one could count and has (penalty) corners given, at times, on such ball plays, which are hard to follow even for the most learned of its students is back. It is also the same game that manages to thrill the audiences merely by the run of the striker with the ball under his stick and the goal in front of his eyes. Hockey, even in the dying stages of its existence managed to evoke passion in one of its early powerhouses India. Now with an