: First person: Trekking through Dubai sands, a surreal glimpse of what India-Pakistan rivalry can be #IndiaNEWS In 2010, I had visited The Louvre. Like most people, once inside I made a straight dash

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First person: Trekking through Dubai sands, a surreal glimpse of what India-Pakistan rivalry can be #IndiaNEWS
In 2010, I had visited The Louvre. Like most people, once inside I made a straight dash towards its most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. The painting’s ubiquity in pop-culture, a level of familiarity and rich legend had given it a status that made it a must see, with even casual viewers feeling compelled to invent a sliver of emotional investment in witnessing it first hand in Paris. But when I reached the hall where it was kept, I was crestfallen to find out that you can’t really get close to the real Mona Lisa – it’s a tiny painting kept at an artificially high distance (due to security) – or be able to appreciate its art. All I could see was other people seeing the Mona Lisa, desperately trying to click pictures.Which brings us to what has lately become the Mona Lisa of the cricketing world – the India vs Pakistan encounter. Sunday at Dubai was the first time the teams met since the Men’s ODI World Cup in 2019, the latest chapter in a storied rivalry. As the sporting gods would have the stars align, around the same time on Sunday another storied rivalry kicked off in Manchester –...Read more

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