March , 2008
Dhyanchand to Dhoni: Demise of great Indian hockey
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For any reporter a Vox populi or voice of the people can be one of the easiest assignments ....When you are scrambling for news ideas every evening, a call from the assignment desk asking you to send a few vox-pops (that's what they are called in journalistic parlance) next morning comes as a ray of hope. And there is nothing like it when the topic happens to be cricket. Throw questions on cricket and public will crowd around you and your gun-mike will start to pick up voices from all directions. "Tendulkar! What a player he is." "Had he not got back his form...India would have lost the series." Public hai saab janti hai.... So you start talking cricket, even a street smart paanwallah can turn one of the best critics of the game. "Sachin is doing well because he has started to wait....
More about Abhishek Patni
Abhishek Patni joined CNN-IBN in July 2005 and is working as a Special Correspondent in Noida. In his 15-year career, he has worked with The Pioneer, Hindustan Times, Zee News and Sahara Samay. He joined the channel as Bureau Chief in Lucknow. A keen observer of politics, Patni has covered the 1997, 1998 and 2004 Lok Sabha elections and the UP Assembly elections of 1997, 2002 and 2007. Apart from several special reports and impact stories including the Amitabh Bachchan Barabanki Land scam, Manjunath murder case and Mayawati Taj Corridor case, he's also reported live from Badrinath on the kapat opening ceremony at height of 10,800 feet in 2004. A product of St Joseph's College Nainital, he has a Masters in Modern Indian History from the DAV college, Dehradun. He also has a post-graduate diploma in journalism and mass communication from Bhartiya Vidhaya Bhawan, Lucknow. He has done an appreciation course in professional cinematography from Pune in 2001. Loves traveling, trekking, reading and writing. Is married with a son.
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