Chandra Schaffter, responding to a request from The Editor, Thuppahi** …. with the highlighting being the latter’s imposition
For obvious reasons, my association with hockey was not so important although I was possibly a better hockey played at national level, than I was at cricket. I started playing hockey at the age of 8 or 9, on the road with my father’s walking stick. We could not afford buy a hockey stick at that time. However, when I got a bit older, in school we had access to hockey sticks; but then war intervened and for 5-6 years from ’41 until ’46, I had no hockey at all, never touching a hockey stick.