Demigod to Devil - The Dark Knight
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” This is what I read about Sachin in an article by Jaideep in a sports site. Being a ‘Dark Knight’ fan and going through the string of comments on TOI and a plethora of “Retire soon!!” tweets daily, I couldn’t resist from throwing some light. The problem I feel is not with the people or with Sachin, it is part of the process of ‘Being Sachin’. After 23 years of nonstop cricketing brilliance, thirty three thousand international runs and now a hundred international hundreds, the biggest facebook debate was “Now will Sachin Tendulkar retire?” True, the hundredth 100 has been a wait, a long excruciating wait. It has seen the entire English debacle and the Aussie drubbing, then it also signified that even a Great Man needs to earn his achievements. As he himself said after completing his epic ton “It’s been a tough phase for me….because nobody talked about my 99 hundreds.” The retirement of Rahul Dravid...