Hello friends. A friend of mine suggested a movie couple of months ago. I haven't seen that movie since it was released. The name of that miviemis ' Chaamp'. It is a bengali movie which was acted by bengali actor Dev. Frankly speaking I am not a big fan of him and I don't like his movies at all. But in this movie, he had done something which is very nice. For that I would like to thank him. In a dialogue in this movie mentioned a name which is almost forgotten. The name is P.L.Roy or Paresh Lal Roy - the ' Father of Indian Boxing'.
For you may it is hard to believe that a boy from a race which is subsisting on rice playing boxing. Well you never know. But first of all the Bangals( বাঙাল) can raise their collars. It is because P.L.Roy was born in Borishal ( Bangladesh) on 20th December, 1893. He was born in a very highly educated Bengali-Christian family. His father was a Barrister and his uncle was Surya Kumar Gudiv Chakroborty, one of India's first Doctors. P.L.Roy was born in Borishal but his family lived in London from 1901. He went to St. Poul school there and started learning boxing at the age of 10. Famous boxers of England tought him, naturally he became school champion. From there to Cambridge, there also champion. Finally in 1914, he became champion of England in the bantamweight catagory. In 1919, he came back to Bengal and started working for Bengal Railways. At that time boxing wasn't that much popular among bengali boys. He made it popular. He set up the first boxing ring at Ballygunge and also formed the Bengal Boxing Federation. Pramatha Chowdhury, Fanindra Krishna Mitra, Nagen Chatterjee so many bengalees learned boxing from him. It is very sad that Bengalees don't remember this icon that much but his office didn't forget him. In 2011, the Bengal Railways named an indoor stadium after him and built a statue in ode of him. Not only that, few years back, Sashi Tharoor participated in Oxford Union Debate. In that debate, he stated that-- one sixth of all the British forces were Indians. 54,000 Indians were dead fighting for the British. 65,000 were wounded and other 4000 were missing. In this group, P.L.Roy and his brother were also there. His brother, Indra Lal Roy was the flying ace or fighter pilot in the First World War. His tomb is in France but P.L.Roy is rested in peace in Kolkata.
At D.L.Khan Road , there is Bhawanipur cemetery and on the top of his tomb you can still see a pair red boxing gloves.
For you may it is hard to believe that a boy from a race which is subsisting on rice playing boxing. Well you never know. But first of all the Bangals( বাঙাল) can raise their collars. It is because P.L.Roy was born in Borishal ( Bangladesh) on 20th December, 1893. He was born in a very highly educated Bengali-Christian family. His father was a Barrister and his uncle was Surya Kumar Gudiv Chakroborty, one of India's first Doctors. P.L.Roy was born in Borishal but his family lived in London from 1901. He went to St. Poul school there and started learning boxing at the age of 10. Famous boxers of England tought him, naturally he became school champion. From there to Cambridge, there also champion. Finally in 1914, he became champion of England in the bantamweight catagory. In 1919, he came back to Bengal and started working for Bengal Railways. At that time boxing wasn't that much popular among bengali boys. He made it popular. He set up the first boxing ring at Ballygunge and also formed the Bengal Boxing Federation. Pramatha Chowdhury, Fanindra Krishna Mitra, Nagen Chatterjee so many bengalees learned boxing from him. It is very sad that Bengalees don't remember this icon that much but his office didn't forget him. In 2011, the Bengal Railways named an indoor stadium after him and built a statue in ode of him. Not only that, few years back, Sashi Tharoor participated in Oxford Union Debate. In that debate, he stated that-- one sixth of all the British forces were Indians. 54,000 Indians were dead fighting for the British. 65,000 were wounded and other 4000 were missing. In this group, P.L.Roy and his brother were also there. His brother, Indra Lal Roy was the flying ace or fighter pilot in the First World War. His tomb is in France but P.L.Roy is rested in peace in Kolkata.
At D.L.Khan Road , there is Bhawanipur cemetery and on the top of his tomb you can still see a pair red boxing gloves.
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