Summary
K.P.S. Gill is a fortunate man. You may not have thought so seeing him emerge from the meeting where he had been effectively sacked. He left without the expected quivering moustache or bristling outrage, looking all aglum, like he'd drawn a bad hand at the blackjack tables in Las Vegas.
But until that day, Gill had been given a free hand for 14 years to do exactly what he wanted. Omissions, commissions (of all kinds), catastrophic failure, inconsistent selections, dubious book-keeping Gill had built himself quite a hall of infamy. It needed the most literal, incontrovertible proof of decay within the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) to bring his unsavoury reign to an end. It took a video of the IHF secretary K. Jothikumaran reaching across a table to firmly grasp a wad of cash. Look ma, greased palms.See the full content of this document
Extract
End of the Hockey Autocrat ; the Ioa and the Sports Ministry Have a Very Small Window of Opportunity Before the Opportunists Return.
There is a certain satisfaction at seeing a dictator fall, specially one as ruthless and unrepentant as Gill. This is not the end of the autocr...
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