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Joginder Singh - Veteran Athlete Lives In Penury
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 119906" data-attributes="member: 1"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Marginalisation of a Veteran</strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong> </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Ravi Dhaliwal</strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p> <p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 15px">T</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">he marginalisation of a distinguished athlete could not have been more complete as one watches India’s most famous veteran sportsman, the world renowned 110-year-old Joginder Singh, writhing in pain and dying a slow yet painful death with no help forthcoming from either the government or any non-government organisation (NGO).</span></span></p><p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">So highly laudable have been the achievements of Joginder Singh in the world of athletics that his name and photograph figure prominently in last years edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for ‘being the oldest man on the planet to win a gold medal in the discus throw in the World Veterans Athletic Championships held in Berlin in 1998." Berlin is the same city where, exactly 81 years ago, Joginder Singh won a medal in an athletic meet in 1910 — once again a feat listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. As if this is not enough, a senior IPS officer, Mr Rajinder Singh, has written a 300 page biography in which he has given vivid details of the life and times of the veteran athlete and to top it, Joginder Singh has been feted by no less a personality than a former Deputy Prime Minister of the erstwhile USSR.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">These days Joginder Singh has fallen on bad times and he barely has the energy to do anything else except to lie on his cranky cot in his one-room ramshackle tenement located in a dinghy ‘mohalla’ of the walled city. The cot is surrounded rusting cups, chipped medals, faded photographs and frayed clippings of various national and international magazines and newspapers. A solitary special police officer (SPO) stands guard at his `residence’ and the Rs 1500 he gets from the welfare fund of the Patiala police in not enough to make him meet his daily requirements. The cops are proving to be a benevolent lot as Joginder Singh once served the Police Department before retiring as SHO of the Payal (Ludhiana) police station in 1949.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Speaking in a voice heavy with emotion and anger, Joginder Singh reveals that keeping in view his achievements he has addressed several petitions to the state government for financial help but to no avail. However, the frail old man has some pleasant words for Mr R.S. Gill, Inspector-General of Police, Patiala zone who he says has been kind enough to provide him some aid.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Joginder Singh blames that fatalistic Indian thought — ‘kismet’ — for his present pitiable condition. He says "Had my son and wife been alive I would have ended my life by committing suicide. As I am all alone there will be nobody to cremate me". His only son Varinderjit Singh committed suicide way back in 1925 and his wife, Prem Kaur, died in 1995. Now, the SPO, with his friendly overtures and gossip, is his only window to the world.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Joginder Singh recalls how he befriended a former Deputy PM of USSR while competing in a meet abroad. So impressed was the Deputy PM that he took Joginder Singh along with him to Moscow. However, the biting cold was a bit too harsh on him and he returned to Patiala after spending a week in Moscow.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">For nearly three decades Joginder Singh was the undisputed king in the world of veteran athletics. A cursory glance of his passport, which has been stamped with visas of nearly 23 countries, reveals that he was born in 1880 at Lahore. From Moscow to Melbourne and from Singapore to Sydney, Joginder Singh has seen it all but now, living amidst apathy and penury, there is just one thought that keeps on crossing his mind "Who will cremate me?"</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011006/spr-trib.htm#2</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 119906, member: 1"] [CENTER][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4][B]Marginalisation of a Veteran [/B][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][B]Ravi Dhaliwal [/B][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [LEFT][B][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4]T[/SIZE][/FONT][/B][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]he marginalisation of a distinguished athlete could not have been more complete as one watches India’s most famous veteran sportsman, the world renowned 110-year-old Joginder Singh, writhing in pain and dying a slow yet painful death with no help forthcoming from either the government or any non-government organisation (NGO).[/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]So highly laudable have been the achievements of Joginder Singh in the world of athletics that his name and photograph figure prominently in last years edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for ‘being the oldest man on the planet to win a gold medal in the discus throw in the World Veterans Athletic Championships held in Berlin in 1998." Berlin is the same city where, exactly 81 years ago, Joginder Singh won a medal in an athletic meet in 1910 — once again a feat listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. As if this is not enough, a senior IPS officer, Mr Rajinder Singh, has written a 300 page biography in which he has given vivid details of the life and times of the veteran athlete and to top it, Joginder Singh has been feted by no less a personality than a former Deputy Prime Minister of the erstwhile USSR. [/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]These days Joginder Singh has fallen on bad times and he barely has the energy to do anything else except to lie on his cranky cot in his one-room ramshackle tenement located in a dinghy ‘mohalla’ of the walled city. The cot is surrounded rusting cups, chipped medals, faded photographs and frayed clippings of various national and international magazines and newspapers. A solitary special police officer (SPO) stands guard at his `residence’ and the Rs 1500 he gets from the welfare fund of the Patiala police in not enough to make him meet his daily requirements. The cops are proving to be a benevolent lot as Joginder Singh once served the Police Department before retiring as SHO of the Payal (Ludhiana) police station in 1949. [/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Speaking in a voice heavy with emotion and anger, Joginder Singh reveals that keeping in view his achievements he has addressed several petitions to the state government for financial help but to no avail. However, the frail old man has some pleasant words for Mr R.S. Gill, Inspector-General of Police, Patiala zone who he says has been kind enough to provide him some aid. [/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Joginder Singh blames that fatalistic Indian thought — ‘kismet’ — for his present pitiable condition. He says "Had my son and wife been alive I would have ended my life by committing suicide. As I am all alone there will be nobody to cremate me". His only son Varinderjit Singh committed suicide way back in 1925 and his wife, Prem Kaur, died in 1995. Now, the SPO, with his friendly overtures and gossip, is his only window to the world. [/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Joginder Singh recalls how he befriended a former Deputy PM of USSR while competing in a meet abroad. So impressed was the Deputy PM that he took Joginder Singh along with him to Moscow. However, the biting cold was a bit too harsh on him and he returned to Patiala after spending a week in Moscow. [/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]For nearly three decades Joginder Singh was the undisputed king in the world of veteran athletics. A cursory glance of his passport, which has been stamped with visas of nearly 23 countries, reveals that he was born in 1880 at Lahore. From Moscow to Melbourne and from Singapore to Sydney, Joginder Singh has seen it all but now, living amidst apathy and penury, there is just one thought that keeps on crossing his mind "Who will cremate me?"[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011006/spr-trib.htm#2 [/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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