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...spiritual teacher; ji, a title of respect), he is well aware that he is his own best advertisement: he glows as disciples introduce him as a man who has had the same weight and waist size for 60 years and who can still swing a mean bat on his cricket team. He loves to mention his similarly consistent record in marriage: "One wife, 52 years," he boasts...
...ambition, but he disagrees. Parthasarathy, who studied international law at University College, London, tells the room that he starts his day at 4 a.m. and ends it at 9:30 p.m., never needing a break or vacation, though with plenty of time to maintain his health with yoga and cricket. "You believe work tires you? Work can never tire you!" he scolds. "What tires you are your worries about the past and anxiety for the future." The undisciplined mind, he says, too easily slips into the past and future, veering toward likes and dislikes that prevent you from staying focused...
...hour before the kick-off of Kolkata's biggest sporting event and the rain keeps pouring. The pitch at the cavernous Salt Lake Stadium is now little better than a mud pit, pockmarked by spreading pools of brackish water and streaks of brown slush. Were this a cricket match, officials would have canceled proceedings and sent fans home. But this is football in the most football-crazy city in India: over 100,000 boisterous Calcuttans fill the divided sides of the stadium, one half festooned in the maroon and green of Mohun Bagan, the other in the red and gold...
...during this mid-August deluge, is an epic contest older than the Spanish civil war waged between Real Madrid and Barcelona and deeper than the glossy rivalries of the money-spinning English Premier League. India, of course, is not a football power - at home, the sport is dwarfed by cricket, which has captured the country's popular imagination and advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing body, and 24th in Asia - 13 spots...
...clubs - toppling the crack East Yorkshire Regiment, the best British team in India, barefoot in the final. Boria Majumdar, India's leading sports historian and author of Goalless, a history of Indian football, describes it as "India's Lagaan moment" - referring to the 2001 Bollywood blockbuster about a fictional cricket-playing village that beat the ruling British at their own game. This was real life, however, and Kolkata erupted in cele-brations, with Hindus and Muslims, poor and rich, all united in anticolonial sentiment. The glory of the moment cemented football's place in the soul of the city...