'O captain! My captain!'
Ashok Malik pays tribute to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi in the Deccan Chronicle .
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Ashok Malik pays tribute to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi in the Deccan Chronicle.
The effervescence was short-lived. Shammi and Tiger were prophets before their age. The 1960s proved a false dawn, and society soon surrendered to the cynical and underperforming statism of the 1970s — free India’s most wasted decade. It took another generation, and the cusp of a new millennium, for the legacy of both Shammi and Tiger to be fully appreciated, and for the rest of us to catch up with them.
Saba Karim, the former India wicketkeeper, also suffered from impaired vision in his right eye and speaks to India Today of how Pataudi helped him cope with it.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo