In a country bustling with life with so many diverse religions, backgrounds and people there was a togetherness that the freedom fighters would be proud of, when Sachin was out there was a silence that school teachers would die for during their classes and when India won there was a cheer that echoed all over our 3,287,263 square kilometers landscape.
My usually busy bosses were all sitting together watching the game, cheering every run and offering advice to the players on how to play. It was a day when productivity, growth, profit et al didn't matter; it was only about India winning.
I read in a book that, "Cricket is a way of life in the sub continent; it consumes a disproportionate amount of people's time and energy for a normal sport." Well, Cricket is no normal sport. It is the driving force behind unity in this country (and between countries), it is perhaps the only occasion
when a person breaks the shackles his boss or wife has on him to get a glimpse of his team winning, it is an opportunity for everyone to forget everything and become a fan. For us in India, cricket is life
This World Cup belongs to every Indian as much as it does to the Men in Blue. With India's jam packed schedule this year, it won't be long before the fans don their roles again.
For everyone has a very specific role when India plays; it might mean not watching the game, it might mean sitting in the same position all day, it might mean going to a fancy bar and forgetting what you were there for or for a lucky few it might mean commanding others to do what they should actually be doing (my colleagues) but it is a role played to perfection by most and the it was the efforts of more than a billion people that made April 02, 2011 possible.
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