Sachin Tendulkar with wife Anjali at war veteran and Group Captain (Retd) Dilip Parulkar's book launch at a city hotel on Monday. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar

India's batting legend Sachin Tendulkar was touched by the story of war veteran and Group Captain (Retd) in the Air Force, Dilip Parulkar, who tried to escape from a prisoner of war camp in Pakistan in 1971.