We have all grown ‘old’ watching Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar bat but the memories remain as fresh as ever. Let me turn the clock back to December 1988. I had joined The Times of India just a month before and was still finding my feet in the Old Lady of Boribunder. As assistant editor, my job was initially to write ‘current topics’ for the editorial page on subjects as diverse as the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation to a famine in Burundi! Till Sachin came into my professional life.