6 plus 4 = 10 dulkar

After having typed and published this blog entry, I am sure I would have pleased myself for paying my share of tribute to the master called Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. I now feel lucky that I bunked my office to watch the super innings of 200* yesterday. Ever Since Saeed Anwar hit 194 against India in chennai in the independence cup,1997 , I always wondered how long sachin is going to take to overhaul that feat. Since nobody deserved more than he did.

I am not going to put any more statistics and records over here, since, it can well be found elsehwre better shaped, better accumulated. This is pure homage stuff.

In any cricket match around the country (and these days even around the world) you invariably find some spectator with poster/ face painting or Tshirt with message yelling and punctuating the very fact that Cricket is our religion and Sachin is our God! . Indeed. All sixteen aanas counted.
He is not just a sportstar. He is a jewel.

In my opinion he has done much more than any sportsman across the world could ever accomplish. He is truly a unifier. In a country, where nothing else can coalesce the demography, here is this super human who gel all of us. Bring us together.
India is a land of diversity. Even the constitution draft mentions the fact. Western India romanticize about their audacity and bravery, east about the culture and heritage. North about the leadership and enlightment and south for intellegentia and acamedic brilliance. In such a diverse population if something that keeps all of us united and univocal, it’s Sachin!

We all argue the undue credit, media byte, TV coverage, hype and inflated moolah given to cricket and how it is destroying other sports. If you ask me, its a meaningless argument. We must give credit to what it deserve. We need something to unify all of us.

The religion could never become that thread, Since the country has already been partitioned once on that basis. Neither could the language, since ours wouldn’t have been a single country at all if we had agreed to promote only one. It’s the cricket that keeps our heartbeats at the same level.He is a mascot of sustained excellence, a metaphor for a billion people’s aspirations. In every sense, a sociological phenomenon.
Not everyone has the same opinion about the politicians, Pakistan or china. So if , for example , you are at some alien place anywhere within the latitude and longitude of our country , you can bring one topic and you would be assured of a long healthy and friendly conversation. It could either be cricket or sachin Tendulkar, since both are more or less synonymous.
Shahrukh khan , Amitabh bachchan and Amir khans are our stars, but sachin is our hero. We adore stars, but revere the heros.

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