friends indians and countrymen
lend me your ears
i come to bury indian hockey, not to praise,
the evil that men do lives after them,
the good is oft interred with their bones
so let it be with indian hockey and olympians,
the noble gill and the nobler jyothikumaran,
hath told you that indian hockey is ambitious,
if it were so it  it was a grievous fault,
and grievously hath
 hockey answered it,
here under the leave of gill and jyothikumaran-
for they are all honorable men,
come i to speak about hockey-in indian hockeys funeral
hockey was our national game-bringing laurels for 50 years
but gill and jyothikumaran say-indian hockey was too ambitious
and gill and jyothikumaran are honorable men,
indian hockey had brought home so many medals-
how many medals did gill and jyothikumaran bring
was this ambitionof seeking a medal  too ambitious for gill and jyothikumaran?


i will not kill shakespeare s eloquent rendering of mark antonys speech by the side of julius caesars body-except to misquote shakespeare regarding the murders of indian hockey-kps. gill and jyothikumaran
 you will compell me to read indian hockeys will-
then make a ringabout the corpse of indian hockey,
and let me show you him that made the will-
you all know this mantle,i remember,
indian hockey had it for many years-
look in this place ran jyothikumarans dagger through,
through this the well beloved gill stabbed-
this was the most unkindestest cut of all-et tu gill
i need not say more,
apologies to shakespeare
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