… what struck me most about Tendulkar, much more than his batting, was his status as an unqualified hero. In Pakistan I always felt - and loved the fact - that we consider heroes to be a figment of the imagination, a whimsy of the privileged in a hard, mean world. Using Jinnah, the Bhuttos, and the Khans, Jahangir and Imran, to illustrate this tendency, I argued that Pakistan didnt, or couldnt, have the kind of hero Tendulkar was....... Osman Samiuddin (Pakistani Journalist).
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:30:23 +0000
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