please read this wonderful article..:) What Sachin’s retirement means for an indian who doesn’t care about cricket… I am an indian guy who does not care about cricket at all. Now for those who don’t realise the problem with this, its a bit like being in a pack of lions and not being fond of hunting. You tend to be lost in all those conversations about the square cut shots, under the arm bowling and all those references to that random Firoze Shah Kotlah match in 1995 where someone made a 200 or took 10 wickets. But this blog post is about Sachin so I am going to focus on him. Sachin has been the Muhammed Ali, Roger Federrer, Tiger Woods of cricket, and has been a pride of the nation. Every young boy in India wants to bat like Sachin, be like Sachin or at best one fortunate day just be able to take an autograph to make his own life complete. I am obviously interested in none of that! Don’t get me wrong, I do respect him for his achievements and his ability as a sportsman. But, that is not the reason he matters to me. To me, he does what our national anthem could never do, what stories of our freedom struggle could never do, what our national leaders over all these years could not even some close to, and to an extent what even Mahatma Gandhi couldn’t manage to do. He brings my country together. Sachin Tendulkar is one and the only thing india unites on. Be it Hindus, Muslims, North Indians, South Indians, guys, girls, the urban high rise city folks or the farmer in the village, when Sachin is on 99 we all have but one wish in our hearts. To me he is a symbol of Nationalism like no other I have seen in my lifetime. Why does india need a symbol like that? Because we indians are all different! We don’t share the same religion, gods, language, food, culture, past, and even race. We have plenty of stuff to differentiate each other on, but little that brings us together. We need such a symbol now more than ever, as we need to come together tackle the bigger problems and rise up to where we should have been, where India should have been. Sachin’s departure from cricket, is not only crickets loss but also India as a nation, and we as indians. His spot is empty. Someone amongst the billion of us needs to fill that place and fill it fast. I hope we can once again as a nation come together with the same hopes and same feelings in our hearts for someone. It saddens me to think that when they write the history books, they will mention Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Bhagat Singh, the Constitution, the National Anthem, our National Flag, but will confine Sachin to the sports records and ignore this great man’s biggest contribution to India. The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 13:43:07 +0000
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