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Anjali fell in love with 17-year-old Sachin at the airport By Neil Joshi
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achin Tendulkar has time and again reiterated that his best partnership was not on the field but off it with his wife Anjali. During the official launch of his autobiography, ‘Playing It My Way’ he provided an inside view as to how the partnership was soleminised into a permanent one in 1995. Sachin Tendulkar and Anjali had dated for five years before they took their vows, but it was Anjali’s brave run at the Mumbai international airport calling out to ‘Sachin’ which got the batsman’s attention. Speaking on the occasion, Anjali recollected their first tryst and how both had each other on their minds, after a split moment at the airport’s visitor’s gallery where she had gone to receive her mother who was travelling from England. “I didn’t know he was 17, I didn’t know who he was. I was with Aparna [Anjali’s friend] who told me he is the wonder boy of Indian cricket and the youngest boy to score a hundred in cricket. I did-
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hree top executives of different private education establishments and some government officials of the Social Welfare department were on Wednesday booked for allegedly duping the Maharashtra government to the tune of Rs.24.28 crore, a senior official with the ACB said. According to the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB), accused Birla Shlok Education Ltd's Regional Head Ravindra Indulkar, Zenith Software Ltd's Vice President Guruprasad Krishnamurthy, Core Education and Technology's Vice President Raju Pandey and some government officials were booked under IPC sections 420 Continued on pg 2 «
n’t care what he was or who he was, I had no interest in cricket, I thought he was really cute,” Anjali said at the launch of his book. She added that the ‘wonder boy’ was embarrassed that he studiosly avoided her gaze as his brother came to receive him. “I was there to receive my mom who was coming from England. I forgot about my mother and I ran screaming Sachin, Sachin, so cute. The funny thing is Ajit and Nitin [both brothers] were there with him and Sachin was so embarrassed that he didn’t look at me,” she said. Anjali who was practising medicine at that time at the Grant Medical College sourced his residence contact through friends and was surprised that Sachin knew her and what clothes she wore despite him not looking back at her at the airport. Anjali said that Sachin was very hesitant to invite her to his house and told her to pretend to be a journalist. “Sachin used to never pick up the phone. That day he picked up the phone. I said ‘I am Anjali and you don’t know me and I
saw you at the airport yesterday.’ He said, ‘Ya ya I remember, I saw you. So I asked him, how and what was I wearing. So he told me I was wearing an orange shirt. That what I call destiny,” stating how their innings started together. Sachin said, “The only thing I remembered was the colour of her t-shirt.”
LETTERS TO SACHIN
She narrated while the current generation wouldn’t know the meaning of conversing through letters, she said that due to the high international rates, both of them wrote letters and stayed connected with each other. “In 1990 there were no mobile phones or computers, so if ever I wanted to call him, there were these PCOs, so I had to get out of the 46 acres [Grant Medical College] campus and go to a PCO where the ISD rates were less. So the best option was to write a letter. So I had to plan ahead as to which city he would be after 10 days. That is the way we communicated in those days.”
Murder: a clinching clue is paper piece A piece of paper helps police in investigations into a murder case By Zuber Ansari
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piece of Urdu newspaper published in UP helped police in a murder case. The police who found a newspaper piece read the dateline and also the place of publication of the paper. The D.N. Nagar police while searching the house of 48-year-old Daryasheel Desa who was murdered by two men, found a piece of Urdu paper. The piece of paper had been used to wrap the chopper and pistol – the murder weapons. The killers used these weapons to murder Daryasheel. The police said: “The two killers could be from Uttar Pradesh. They are hiding there and our investigation continues.” Daryasheel Desai was in the event management business. His colleague Sandeep Kawa was run-
“The D.N. Nagar police while searching the house of Daryasheel Desai in Andheri, found a piece of Urdu newspaper. The killers used the paper to wrap the weapons” ning some betting business. On making inquiries, the police found no one in the building was from Uttar Pradesh and none from there is living in the building. Evidently Daryasheel was a woman lover. In his room, there were several photographs of him with women.
We conclude the newspaper was bought to Mumbai by the two killers. They killed Daryasheel on October 23. They shot at Sandeep Kawa who has been injured. He is recuperating at the Lilavati Hospital in Bandra. On that day, Daryasheel was drinking alcohol at his residence at Manish Nagar, Andheri. Kawa also came there and joined the party. The two men stabbed Daryasheel to death. It was a pre-planned murder. Kawa told the police he did not know who the killers were. The criminals escaped from a rear exit of the building. The police have already started questioning Kawa and in all probability, they will go to Uttar Pradesh. They are confident they will nab the criminals soon.