The sight will be etched in my mind’s eye for years to come. As the captain of the chartered flight ferrying us from Chandigarh to Lahore for the 1996 World Cup cricket final drew our attention to the border thousands of feet below, hundreds of pair of eyes peered out of the windows of the Airbus A-320 to catch a glimpse of the rows of bright lights that dotted the India-Pakistan border. Not a few minds would have fantasised: “If that line did not exist… many sporting conquests would have been notched up.” Read more »

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