The passing of a tennis legend
THE WEEK India|October 02, 2022
The world was still young and fresh, and life was an adventure waiting to unfold. I was not yet 12. A Phillips transistor radio, gifted by my grandfather, had dramatically changed the quality of my life. Priced at ₹99, it was starkly simple: an on-off switch, a small dial for volume control and another larger one for tuning. But it held a world inside: the news from AIR, English music on Delhi B and Hindi film songs, interspersed with jingles, on Vividh Bharati.
NAVTEJ SARNA
The passing of a tennis legend

Most importantly, there was the cricket commentary, the ball-by-ball account of cricket matches happening in other cities, or even other countries. Pearson Surita, Devraj Puri, Bobby Talyarkhan, Suresh Suraiya and others painted word pictures of green Ovals, turning wickets, lengthening shadows and epic struggles between bat and ball that bewitched listeners for hours.

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