Sachin the epic warrior

No one wants to be left behind in commemorating Sachin Tendulkar as he retires. The MIG Cricket Club in Mumbai plans to name its pavilion after him, and paint a large portrait of him on its front wall. "We spoke to him around six to eight months back and he acknowledged it," MIG Cricket Club secretary Ashish Patankar said, as reported in the Business Standard. "We are expecting the painting to be completed by November 10. I will request him to come and see the painting before the Mumbai Test."

But who can outdo, Sanatan Dinda, a Kolkata-based artist, who has painted Tendulkar to resemble Arjuna, a mythological warrior from the Mahabharata. "Suddenly a thought came into my mind and I started painting impulsively," Dinda said. "If Sachin wants this, I won't say no to him. But I want to keep this with me in a personal museum which I will curate in the future."

There was plenty of grumbling about the doubtful dismissal of Tendulkar in the first innings in Kolkata. Replays suggested that the doosra from Shane Shillingford hit Tendulkar quite high on the back leg.

The Daily News & Analysis compiles a list of ten most shocking decisions Tendulkar has got in his career.

The Kolkata-based Telegraph finds a link between Tendulkar's dismissal and Rohit Sharma's century on debut.

Englishman Llong's howler, which ended Sachin Tendulkar's stay at the wicket, was pretty much the talking point at the Eden till debutant Rohit Sharma became the 14th from India to score a hundred in his very first Test.

But there's a connect between the two: yesterday, Sachin had presented Rohit with his maiden Test cap.

Symbolically, it seemed Sachin had also passed on the mantle of taking Team India forward to a fellow Mumbaikar.

On firstpost.com, Sandip Roy writes about two life-changing events that the people of Kolkata are dealing with this week: Tendulkar's retirement and the rising price of potatoes or aloo.

Next week Sachin will be gone from Kolkata. The confetti will have been swept up. Some of us will remember this week as the week Sachin Tendulkar played his last test in Kolkata. And others will remember it as the week we lost the aloo in our biryani. Both are life-changing events, one long-dreaded, the other never-imagined. But the lesson is the same. Just because it's always been there, and has a reputation for being humble, don't take something for granted. One day it might be gone and then you all you can do is just savour the memory. Of that immaculate Sachin stroke. Or the perfect Chandramukhi aloo.