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“Playing hockey was never on my mind until one day my brother told me that a girls’ hockey team was being formed. For the first time since it came up in 1920, AMU will boast of a girls’ hockey team. Aligarh: In this hockey World Cup season, a glass ceiling looks all set to be shattered at the Aligarh Muslim University. In 1982, Razia Rizvi, deputy director, physical education at AMU’s women’s college, tried hard to make girls play hockey in the university but ran into a stone wall.Razia remembers her struggle. “I am hooked to hockey.”Naseem and Alia are part of a groundbreaking project at AMU, an endeavor at inclusion which can open doors for Muslim girls taking up the national sport..