Showing posts with label Dara Singh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dara Singh. Show all posts

Saturday, September 23, 2023

We beat our 2005 Blogging Record

 We have done it. 


unmasked!




Our most popular blog entry was about my childhood hero, world champion wrestler Dara Singh, which I posted on 15th November  2005. 

As a 9 year old I had sat next to him in Sampige Stadium in Bangalore and watched him crush King Kong and Flash Gordon and see the Madked Angel refuse to fight him, as he would have been


The blog had innumerable comments from “their” family members, wrestling enthusiasts, biographers, of the “two” Dara Singh’s. YES, there were of them!

This entry of 18 years ago, with its comments, is considered as one of the authoritative active sources about our Indian world champion wrestler.

In this era, where the Champion Indian women wrestlers, who have brought great laurels for our country, are fighting for their honour, and Annikki and I stand with them, we use this our blog to highlight how it is important to stand by our 10 Guiding Principles.

The hits for the Dara Singh blog crossed 19400.

Today we crossed 20000 hits in the month of September alone.


Thank you to the rogues who made Annikki snd me to terminate our membership to O-India Ry for generating such a great interest in our blog. 

It is their criminal behaviour that we exposed in our blog that has driven this interest worldwide. 

Many are shocked to see how some Indians in Finland can behave in this manner, shaming the name of our great country, INDIA.

(I am doing research into the great controversy about the name of our country, whether  it should be India and/or Bharat. As it is a factual historical, financial, political check, it is taking time to prepare this blog - do stay tuned. 

In the meantime I continue to say that I am pround to be sn INDIAN, so beautifully sing by the Shillong Chamber Choir.


We restarted our blogging on 3rd of August this year. We made four blog entries in August snd we had just 287 visitors.

We started regular blogging about every two days in September and the  visitors to our blog have gone through the roof. 

The visitors peak in September has exceeded the visitors we had in the period 2009-2010.


And it is ripping the universe now.


Today 23rd September!!!

The visitors from around the world are coming at over 2 per minute. This sortof result for the blog is truly amazing. 


This statistic was seen at 2:58 am on the 23nd September morning. The bulk of them were from Android app users. They came from all corners of the globe. The search engines were directing the traffic to our blog which meant the keyword we have been using are to the readers interest. Also most readers were coming directly to our blog and not being directed by social media. 

I checked with AI for possible reasons. The answer was clear. People are interested in what we are blogging, so they are coming.

The most popular blog entry was the one we explained why we terminated our membership the the O-India Ry, a Finnish association claiming to cater to people interested in India in the Oilu region.

It appears that the bulk of the visitors came because of the 10 Guiding Principles we applied before quitting this association.

Truth and the Sacrd Trust we abide by, seem to have hit a chord with those who visit the site. We promise that we will continue with this philosophy 

Recently, we were invited to take part in an event to be organised by a member of this association. Although the person is a friend, we declined as we thought it inappropriate to share our time and space with people who behave in a manner opposed to our principles. 

We wish to keep our integrity.

We thank each visitor to our blog for making our blog so popular that it has given us the incentive to blog  in a manner that keeps your interests at heart while abiding by our 20 Guiding Principles.

And if you have been through the comments section on our Dara Singh blog entry and would like to add some information we have missed, please do write to me about it.

It is almost the time we may have to think like this!

Thank you a million times.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Is this THE Dara Singh?

As many of you may have noted, my blog entry about Dara Singh and the other wrestler's of the 1950s are some of the hotest pages that I have. The controversy rages, and even as I try to put it out, it flares up again.

Now I have an email from Mahabir. He has sent me some photographs of a person whom he says is the Dara Singh.


From Dara Singh

From Dara Singh

From Dara Singh


I cannot think that it is the Dara Singh that I watched!

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Subject popularity

I wanted to see which topics I had written about in all my blogs got the greatest number of comments. Although I am not running comments-oriented blogs, as most people are in touch with me directly by email or phone, this was just a random opinion gathering study.

I was surprised to see the maximum number of comments I received was when I wrote about my childhood experiences in watching wrestling in Bangalore in the early 1950s.

There seems to have been a nerve there with my thoughts about Dara Singh, King Kong, Flash Gordon, the Masked Angel and many more EXCITING NAMES.

A raging controversy developed as to whether there were two Dara Singhs - the Wrestler and the Actor.

It was Most interesting to see how many people, like me, revelled in all that make believe wrestling bouts that we were shown. All it says it that those Wrestlers were really superb Actors . and besides enduring a great deal of pain, they still could stick to their scripts! NO WONDER DARA SINGH THE WRESTLER WAS ALSO A GREAT ACTOR!

Wrestling Champion of the World - I seriously do not believe there was any such title - it was a game of fun and make believe of stuntmen to be watched and enjoyed.

But I must say, as a 10 year old, I really did enjoy all that tremendous bouts - the drop kick, the throat stamp, the the overhead spin, and many more manoeuvres that I would go home and practice - in secret!

And to finally resolve the controversy about two Dara Singhs - there was only one, the Wrestler who became an Actor and later a Rajya Sabha Member who did a lot for sports in general. IHe was appointed to the Rajya Sabha in the year 2003 for his contribution to SPORT and AS AN ARTISTE.

The following profile is fromthe Rajya sabha Booklet.

Detailed Profile: Shri Dara Singh


Name Shri Dara Singh
Father's Name Shri Surat Singh
Mother's Name Shrimati Balwant Kaur
Date of Birth 1928-11-19
Birth Place Village Dharmuchak, Distt. Amritsar (Punjab)
Maritial Status Married On 11 May 1961
Spouse Name Shrimati Surjit Kaur Randhawa
No. of Children Three daughters, Two Sons
State Name Nominated
Party Name Bharatiya Janata Party
Permanent Address 308, Dara Villa, A.B.Nair Road, Juhu, Mumbai 400049
Telephone : {022} 26206720(O), 26703070(R)
Present Address 10, Dr. R.P. Road, New Delhi. 110001
Telephone : 23712828, 23752112, 9868181233(M)
Email id darasingh@sansad.nic.in
Educational Qualifications Self-educated
Profession Agriculture, Wrestling, Cine Artiste (Producer and Director)
Positions Held Aug. 2003 Nominated to Rajya Sabha Sept.
2003-Feb. 2004 Member, Committee on Human Resource Development
Feb. 2004 - 2006 Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Youth Affairs and SportsAug.
2004 onwards Member, Committee on Information Technology
2006 onwards Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Freedom Fighter No
Books Published Meri Atmakatha (Punjabi), 1989
Social and Cultural Activities, Literary, Artistic and Scientific Accomplishments and other Special Interests Has written, directed and produced a Hindi film Mera Desh Mera Dharam and a Punjabi film Sawa Lakh Se Ek Ladawn (historical) along with ten other Punjabi and Hindi films; won (i) Professional Indian Wrestling Championship in 1953, (ii) Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in 1959 by defeating Canadian Champion George Godianko and (iii) World Wrestling Championship in 1968 by defeating Lou Theze of America; was conferred the Best Actor Award for the film Jagga by the Government of India which was presented by late Shrimati Indira Gandhi; honoured as honorary citizen of New Jersey by the city of New Jersey, U.S.A.
Sports, Clubs, Favourite Pastimes and Recreation Sports, exercise, reading and cinema
Countries Visited All over the world in connection with wrestling tournaments except China
Other Information President, (i) All India Jat Samaj since 1997, and
(ii) Bombay Jat Samaj since 1987; President, Cine Artist Association since 2005


I am sure this blog entry will draw a lot of flak!!!