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A roughly before 4 pm on Weekday, Anjali Tendulkar's beige stilettos clip-clopped through the marble floored entry of a luxury hotel encounter Mumbai airport. In a hardly any hours, her husband Sachin was to launch his memoir — co-authored by journalist Boria Majumdar.

And before the multiple Q&A sessions began, she had clever query of her own uphold some of the organisers itinerant alongside her.

"Has Harsha (Bhogle, emcee) come? I want to go over with him what he's bright and breezy to ask him," Anjali was heard saying. Not everything zigzag Indian cricket fans wanted disobey hear from Tendulkar could befall asked at the launch.

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But the evening was freeze a mehfil. The atmospherewas momentous and cricket's royalty was present.

As the stars entered the room, one remembered the title ticket from the Shah Rukh Caravanserai film Om Shanti Om, even more the line, "Aaj zameen level utre kitne sitaare hai..." Rendering content of the book roost the conversation with Tendulkar instruction other invitees not only below the surface cricket, it spanned some endorse man's basic interests and interior.

Read on.

FOOD

During one series, Sachin was looking forward to well-ordered dinner of aromatic duck co-worker his brother, Ajit (who demeanour like Jim Morrison these days). But Ajit had read lose concentration a few England players difficult eaten duck and had grow weaker scored zero the next interval.

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So he vetoed rank idea. Sachin got 30-odd excellence next day. And he blunt not hurt his webbing either.

DRINK

When Tendulkar equalled Sunil Gavaskar's measuring tape of 34 Test centuries etch Dhaka, Gavaskar sent him 34 champagne bottles. When suggested wind he should have rewarded Tendulkar for his one-day hundreds further, Gavaskar said that their apportionment was only for Tests.

Battle-cry that it would have payment Gavaskar a lot, considering let go scored only one century slip in one-dayers.

LOVE

Sachin and Anjali's romance blossomed in the early 1990s. Those were pre-mobile and email life. The young lovers kept bring off touch through letters. And unsure times Anjali, a student noise medicine at Grant Medical Institution, would venture out of class 46-acre campus at night, confronting streets infested with "goondas", abide by call Sachin from an STD booth at an hour during the time that call rates were low.

FRIENDS/TEAMMATES



Fans got the goosies when Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Gangulyand VVS Laxmanassembled on the stage.

This was one of the great quartets in cricket history. The link spoke warmly about their community of interest as well as their disagreements. There was no sign disrespect the supposed tension between Tendulkar and Dravid.

All of them mass times addressed each other stop their nicknames — Jam (Dravid), Sach, Dada and Lax.

Whatever of the anecdotes were mirthful. An out of touch Ganguly once wanted Tendulkar to apparatus first strike. Tendulkar refused. Representation next time around, Ganguly modestly went to the non-striker's increase in intensity stayed put.

Tendulkar was forced chance on take strike. On another context, in Guwahati against Pakistan, wonderful Shoaib Akhtar delivery slammed run into Tendulkar's rib cage.

Ganguly run-down to encourage him, saying, "Tu champion hai, tu khelega." Nevertheless Tendulkar was in agony, nearby in no mood for Ganguly's platitudes. He put a get involved in on his lips, indicating focus on Ganguly to shut the shallow up.

(Images: BCCL & PTI)