Cross Maidan Garden Mumbai: Karnataka Sporting Association
A dusty cricket field, the golden hues of the setting sun,
where the air hums with the sound of youthful energy,
where the pulse of the present echoes with the continuity
of the past and the future.
Here cricket becomes more than a game; it is a rhythmic dance:
‘The same stream of life that runs
through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy
through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and
breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle
of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world
of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages
dancing in my blood this moment.’
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a renowned Indian poet, philosopher, musician, and artist, and the first Indian writer to receive the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1913. A literary giant, Tagore’s works span a wide range of genres, but he is perhaps best known for Gitanjali, a collection of deeply spiritual poems that were internationallyrecognized when they were translated into English. His evocative writing, blending the personal with the universal, earned him a lasting place as one of the world’s most influential figures in literature.