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By Suresh Menon
Bangalore-based journalist and
author of "Sachin: Genius
Unplugged"
"To us he is no more a person
Now but a whole climate of
opinion
Under whom we conduct our
different lives."
W H Auden, from his elegy to
Sigmund Freud
Tendulkar heads for his final net
ahead of the Saturday's World
Cup final
In India, Sachin Tendulkar
ceased being a person long ago.
To a small group of friends and
colleagues, he is human with all
the frailties that implies. But to
the vast majority he is merely a
figure on television,
indistinguishable from characters
such as Superman and Batman.
The illusion is strengthened by
the number of occasions he
arrives when the team is in
trouble and takes them to safety,
whipping out his killer straight
drive and unstoppable cover
drive to deal with the enemy's
vicious outswingers or off breaks.
When he does well his fans
discover that life has meaning
after all; when he fails
occasionally they feel suicidal.
Then he scores again and the
wheel is set in motion once
more. The cycle of birth and
rebirth is never seen more
clearly and more often than on
the cricket fields of India.
Auden's lines say it well. Being a
non-person means that your
ambitions are not your own.
Others decide how many runs
you should make before you
retire. It is always the next
milestone that is important.
On the eve of the World Cup
final, the ambitions have
crystallised. All Tendulkar's fans
ask for is that India win the title,
and that Tendulkar himself
scores his 100th international
century.
Bangalore-based journalist and
author of "Sachin: Genius
Unplugged"
"To us he is no more a person
Now but a whole climate of
opinion
Under whom we conduct our
different lives."
W H Auden, from his elegy to
Sigmund Freud
Tendulkar heads for his final net
ahead of the Saturday's World
Cup final
In India, Sachin Tendulkar
ceased being a person long ago.
To a small group of friends and
colleagues, he is human with all
the frailties that implies. But to
the vast majority he is merely a
figure on television,
indistinguishable from characters
such as Superman and Batman.
The illusion is strengthened by
the number of occasions he
arrives when the team is in
trouble and takes them to safety,
whipping out his killer straight
drive and unstoppable cover
drive to deal with the enemy's
vicious outswingers or off breaks.
When he does well his fans
discover that life has meaning
after all; when he fails
occasionally they feel suicidal.
Then he scores again and the
wheel is set in motion once
more. The cycle of birth and
rebirth is never seen more
clearly and more often than on
the cricket fields of India.
Auden's lines say it well. Being a
non-person means that your
ambitions are not your own.
Others decide how many runs
you should make before you
retire. It is always the next
milestone that is important.
On the eve of the World Cup
final, the ambitions have
crystallised. All Tendulkar's fans
ask for is that India win the title,
and that Tendulkar himself
scores his 100th international
century.