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Is Sachin Tendulkar retiring from cricket next March-April? Buzz of an 'autobiography' has echoes of a last ball thriller

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His Last Blast?

Is Sachin Tendulkar retiring from cricket next March-April? There is a buzz that a new book on the master blaster with a renowned cricket historian and commentator is slated for release around that time, after the India-Australia series, and timed with Tendulkar’s farewell to the game. The book, styled as a first-person ‘autobiography’, promises to have explosive stuff about many controversies—particularly about the Greg Chappel-Sourav Ganguly stand-off in the mid-2000s. Apparently, Tendulkar has told the author many unknown facts about his game, cricket in India and his cricketing co-stars. This is sure to be like a last-ball thriller.

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Unknown Hunter

A Delhi-based national daily asked an internationally-acclaimed Indian author what he was reading, for a column on what writers are reading. The author named Yashwant Chittal’s Shikari. The reporter begged his pardon, asking who that was. When he was told Chittal is a Kannada writer and his book Shikari, on Mumbai, is better than any book on the city he had read till now, the paper refused to run it. Why isn’t he reading anything in English, they asked.

Breakout Success

Ruchir Sharma’s Breakout Nations, on the emerging markets of the world, which Outlook excerpted recently, seems to be on its way to becoming a runaway hit. It’s perhaps the only Indian book to be in the top-five of Wall Street Journal and, according to Nielson Bookscan, in the No. 1 spot in the non-fiction category in India. Ruchir is planning his next book that is most likely to be on Indian states—the leaders and the laggards.

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