Bengaluru, Aug. 29 -- Every year on this date, India pauses, only to move again, this time to the rhythm of sport. August 29 belongs to a man who turned hockey into poetry on grass: Major Dhyan Chand, born in 1905, whose stick wrote history under Olympic skies.
From Amsterdam in 1928 to Berlin in 1936, he delivered three consecutive Olympic gold medals. His name was whispered in Europe, feared in Asia, and adored back home. Even when the whistle fell silent, his magic lingered-echoing in India's later Olympic triumphs of 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1964.
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