Indian hockey is a sleeping giant waiting to explode. It has every ingredient and credential to be the world leader even now, as existed till the 70s. India’s booming economy, its outstanding performance in many sporting disciplines on the international forums, the colossal inflow of monies in to the Indian sports processes, offer an exciting platform for Indian field hockey to prosper. Only that it has to position itself to make use of the emerging ethos. Indeed, Indian hockey is passing through an exciting phase. Hockey can read the pulse of the nation, reap benefits out of its country’s new-found growth. Despite many odds stocked against it, we hope, hockey’s unique place in the country and its imminent rise as a genre that counts, cannot be impounded forever.