It really wasn't very difficult for me to choose my role model. It had to be Saurav Ganguly, the batting sensation of the World Cup. With two 'Man of the Match' titles under his belt he had outshone even the incomparable Sachin Tendulkar. And with the World Cup reaching its final stages and the cricket fever reaching its peak, a cricketer as a role model would be a politically correct choice too. After all cricket is the only thing that drives the nation.
Cricket is our passion, our obsession.
There is a war going on in Kargil. Our valiant soldiers are braving the most unforgiving of climatic conditions and the most inhospitable of terrains but we Indians are hardly concerned. We are more bothered about the bouncers of Shoeb Akhtar than the mortar fire of his countrymen. We are more concerned about the state of the Old Trafford Pitch than the conditions at Batalik where our soldiers are battling the enemy at a height of 14000 feet and dying by the hour. To us cricket is more important than country.