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A Letter to the Indian Sports Ministry

A Letter to the Indian Sports Ministry

To, The Sports Minister, New Delhi. Subject: Hockey out, Cricket In. Respected Sir, What is Hockey? Who is Dhyan Chand? I did not know the answer to these questions when I was 9 years old. But I did know who was Sachin Tendulkar and I would dance after every cricket match that India won. I wasn’t alone. There were millions ... Read More »

The Legend of Sachin Tendulkar

The Legend of Sachin Tendulkar

I was 12 years old at the time. India was facing Pakistan in an irrelevant Group Stage game of the Cricket World Cup (that’s not true, matches with Pakistan are never really irrelevant). Like most Indian kids from the 1990s, I was a cricket fanatic – at least then. Pakistan had batted first and amassed a challenging score of 273 ... Read More »

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