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ak from his heart of the many people and organisations he owed a depth of gratitude to many more wept as we watched him walk up to the pitch bend down touch it and then touch his heart he had paid his last respects to the arena that he gave so much to gained so much from we cried as he shed a tear on social media many adults wrote to say that with his retirement their childhood had ended for much of this childhood was seen through tendulkar s exploits on the cricket field on the day tendulkar made that speech even the most hostile cynic did not have a voice that was loud enough to protest the decision to award him the bharat ratna by the next morning though the naysayers began their rhetoric kapil dev deserved it more dhyan chand should have received it too vishwanathan anand should have got it too why give it to a professional sportsman especially one that has earned so much money from the game public servants like e sreedharan deserve it more m s swaminathan should have got it first they said and then patel s article started making the rounds again patel says that the new wording waters down the stringency and rigour of the bharat ratna award he argues the critical words towards advancement of have been dropped salman khan performs exceptionally in his field does that qualify him to be bharat ratna according to the new rules it does and patel is right but does that mean that tendulkar should not receive the award even if we retain the original towards the advancement of clause no there has been no player who has had the combination of elegance balance poise grace technique focus determination power dominance imperiousness confidence occasional arrogance consistency longevity awareness and performance at the highest level in every theater he has visited and played in there is no doubt in my mind that tendulkar has served the indian team in a manner whereby he has worked towards the advancement of the game at the highest order patel disagrees he writes in any case the bharat ratna isn t a glorified man of the series award when we give someone the bharat ratna we honour ourselves we hold up the person as an ideal of true greatness as a model indian tendulkar may not be the person to hold up in front of your children he resembles a middle class opportunist who will take advantage where he can find it i ve often felt upon reading patel that he lives in a different india from the one i live in patel does cite three well worn cases in his substantiation of the opportunism he sees in tendulkar the ferrari tax exemption case the addition of a gym to his house and the reporting of a car accident in 1999 patel s presentation of the ferrari tax exemption case ignores the fact that tendulkar is well within his rights to seek a tax exemption on his ferrari moreover once he received the gift with or without the exemption the car is his he can do with it as he pleases unless there is a clause in the gifting that prohibits a future sale as a tax payer and a citizen of the land he has a right to seek permission to build a gym in his house even after his plans have been already submitted it is up to the government of the day to receive the case examine it and provide such permission if it thinks that that is the right thing to do perhaps tendulkar did employ a lobby group to influence the government s ruling such tactics are perfectly legitimate in any functioning and vibrant civil polity tendulkar s sensitivity over the car accident in 1999 is also perfectly understandable especially given the loud sensationalist high pitched and trp hungry media in which patel plays a significant part in a 24 year long sporting career tendulkar has played with almost no blemish against his name he has always been a servant and a student of the game he hasn t been fined for either dissent or abuse even once in his immensely long playing career his longevity and contributions to the game are unparalleled he has been at times compared to the great don bradman probably the greatest cricketer ever even if we ignore that as unnecessary hyperbole tendulkar has been mentioned in the same breath as bradman gary sobers vivian richards and shane warne some of the greatest players to have played the game he himself has always talked about being a mere custodian of the game and has always talked about the game being much bigger than him unlike viv richards or shane warne or gary sobers who had their occasional transgressions and peccadilloes tendulkar has played longer and emerged with an untarnished reputation his career has been about integrity pride and absolute fidelity to the fundamental tenets of the game if tendulkar cannot be the person to hold up in front of children as a model citizen i am not sure we have any in india from any walk of life sport art science politics in a country that is utterly bereft of role models and heroes tendulkar has crafted a career without a single blotch and stood as a beacon of hope and a giver of pleasure the award to tendulkar has also rekindled the sport versus art debate like art sport also seeks permanence most sportspeople and artists are engaged in the pursuit of excellence in something that is more than the ordinary and banal although some sportspeople and perhaps artists are motivated by the bright lights possible financial rewards popularity and glamour especially at the more popular end of their endeavour most of them at least in their formative years are fuelled by a burning personal desire to drive themselves towards excelling in the domain in which they are rewarded with exceptional talent and in that sense they are self focused because they seek to explore the unknown either within themselves or as part of a larger creative endeavour ed smith in a lovely article in which he cites the magical beauty of sachin tendulkar s wristy flick to midwicket tries to answer if sports is indeed an art he concludes that sport is more than a mere craft sport can be experienced at many different levels just like the arts yes sport may not enable us to find cure for diabetes unlike literature sport may not enable us to understand the impact of a series of russian famines unlike a painting sport may not enable us to transcend the ordinary and peek into the realm that we cannot understand unlike a musical composition sport may not provide us with the ability to see how frequencies may be interwoven together in complex arrangements but sport like art science and literature is enduring exemplary sportsmen make contributions on a different canvas and seek the same permanence that artists seek we live in a world where excellence demands sharp focus as a result there is less of a chance of finding a greek javelin thrower with javelin in one hand and a paint brush in the other sport uplifts the soul as much as art can just talk to people who like to watch the tour de france or long distance running or endurance sports like the triathlon the narrative there is about straining stretching and extending the limits of human endeavour so that we may understand more about ourselves our fears and the limits of our abilities let us return to patel and this simplistic argument he offers kumar gandharva took apart the gharana system transformed the culture of hindustani music and was also given the padma vibhushan tendulkar hit cricket balls many cricket balls and very far but bharat ratna allow me to alter the sentence tendulkar lit the hearts of a million people through making many runs continuously in the most trying circumstances a whole generation of indian cricketers and indian sportspeople wanted to play with pride poise productivity and promise like tendulkar who was a beacon of integrity and hope when india suffered agonizingly through the match fixing crisis that paralyzed the sport in the late 1990s kumar gandharva just sang notes many notes and beautifully but bharat ratna for the record i adore kumar gandharva s music and his contributions i developed the above parallel argument just to demonstrate how facile patel s argument is there can be no doubting tendulkar s contributions the impact of his work is harder to measure but there are statements of impact that can be made most kids would say that they want to bat like tendulkar everywhere i have watched the game he has been a draw card people come to watch him play he has been cheered on most international arenas he has played in audiences at the melbourne cricket ground the lords and antigua anticipate his arrival at the crease and cheer him as much as the crowds at the wankhede the eden gardens or chepauk do just as many aspiring musicians wanted to sing like bhimsen joshi or m s subbulakshmi almost every cricketer of the next generation wanted to play the game like tendulkar not only in india but around the world yes tendulkar never found a cure for aids nor did he advocate world peace but neither did bismillah khan there is no doubt that tendulkar is a popular choice but he is in my view a clear example of how not everything that is popular is necessarily of lesser value his contributions transcend the many divides and boundaries we have in our complex and layered society rich poor urban rural haves havenots high caste low caste popular esoteric aristocrats plebiscites and his contributions to his field have an unmatched endurance in the past the bharat ratna award has been handed out to recipients as though they were recognition for favours not contributions rendered for example 23 of our 41 bharat ratna awardees are politicians it is easy to see why the prestige and uniqueness of the award itself has been sullied by giving sachin tendulkar the bharat ratna my view is that the award has once again gained credibility mohan mohank share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 4 comments posted in cricket tagged bharat ratna cricket india tendulkar god and the argumentative indian posted on 12 october 2013 by mohankaus 5 comments this article first appeared in dna on 11 oct 2013 in two parts part 1 and part 2 i once had the opportunity to travel from mumbai to singapore with raj singh dungarpur he was on his way to new zealand as a representative of the bcci at an icc meeting during our conversation i asked him what his best decision was almost before i could finish my question he said selecting sachin tendulkar to play for india and added with a twinkle in his eye although if you had seen him play as often i had it wasn t really a risky decision it was bold but not risky and mark my words any investment in tendulkar will always pay off raj singh dungarpur akash lal ramesh saxena gundappa viswanath and naren tamhane selected a young bright eyed squeaky voiced curly haired teenager to represent india in pakistan a young and determined 16 year old sachin tendulkar played against a tough pakistan team on 15 november 1989 a pakistan team that had three genuine pace bowlers in wasim akram wakar younis and imran khan and a world class leg spinner in abdul qadir almost twenty four years after that bold decision tendulkar will retire from international cricket after having played 200 test matches and in these 24 years almost as often as we have heard the chant saaaaaachin saaaaaachin we have also had tendulkar embody the very essence of the argumentative indian rahul bhattacharya captures this beautifully in his piece man child superstar in which he writes if the strokes are flowing spectators feel something beyond pleasure they feel something like gratitude the silence that greets his dismissal is about the loudest sound in sport with tendulkar the discussion is not how he got out but why susceptible to left arm spin to the inswinger to the big occasion the issue is not about whether it was good or not but where does it rank a tendulkar innings is never over when it is over it is simply a basis for negotiation he might be behind headphones or helmet but outside people are talking shouting fighting conceding bargaining waiting he is a national habit tendulkar never promised us that he would lead india to victory in every match he played yet we wanted him to no we expected him to no we made him mortal if he did not we expected more from tendulkar than we did from even our politicians tendulkar never promised that at 40 he would produce the fluent strokes he played when he was 28 yet we always expected the tendulkar of old or the tendulkar of 1998 we could of course purchase a dvd of the famous desert storm series and see that tendulkar of old but that wasn t enough it was as though even time stood still when we evaluated tendulkar we could not accept an ageing tendulkar and watch the tendulkar of now for the argumentative indian if tendulkar did not reproduce his shots from 1998 he did not deserve to be in the team in 2013 tendulkar himself never promised us that all his centuries would be made in winning causes yet we expected his centuries to always result in india wins or else those centuries wouldn t count or we labeled him a selfish cricketer tendulkar himself never claimed he was god but we made him god and then the rest of us brought him down bit by bit in the end analysis though in a country that is somewhat bereft of sporting heroes tendulkar the hero has outlasted the argumentative indian crafted a career without a single blemish and stood as a beacon of hope and a giver of pleasure perhaps that is the mark of his greatness in the indian context greatness in sport in india is perhaps not defined by the heady confluence of elegance balance poise grace technique focus determination power dominance imperiousness confidence occasional arrogance consistency longevity awareness and intent he has been all of that over a long career he has had all of those qualities over an extensive and distinguished career perhaps greatness in the indian sporting context has to be marked by violent disagreements on the very essence of that greatness what exactly that greatness is about his greatness should have been automatically assured yet in india tendulkar has always polarized opinion and that perhaps ought to be the accepted definition of greatness in a country that needs heroes but is equally eager to tear them down and cut them down to size every now and then sachin tendulkar announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on thursday 10 10 2013 the fact that he had always worn the number 10 india jersey may have had something to do with the timing of his retirement on this day or maybe it was the ten that prefixed his surname which in turn may have earned him the number 10 jersey early on in his career the one other date that may have worked better for him from the point of view of the numbers would have been 10 10 10 if he had retired on 10 october 2010 he may have retired some five years too early indeed on that very day 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