CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes Scholar, is the author of multiple books on Indian sport and its history, and Consulting Editor, Sports for the India Today Group.

Detailed explanation-2: -by Philip Barker. The Olympics are one of the world’s great celebrations of sport. Here Philip Barker, Olympic historian and sports journalist, chooses five books that help you to understand the games, their origins and their traditions-and to relive the sporting drama of past Olympic Games.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dreams of a Billion gives the reader an inside view of what goes on backstage in the Indian Olympics world, alongside a quick history of how India has fared at the Olympics over the past century, and a look at how the Indian Olympics world has changed in the last decade.

Detailed explanation-4: -India’s Olympic gold in field hockey in 1948 was more significant than any of the country’s three previous gold wins, as it was the newly sovereign nation’s first major sporting triumph. Befittingly, India claimed the championship by defeating Great Britain, the former colonizer, on their own turf in Wembley, London.