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I wonder what Sachin Tendulkar does with his runs. Does he carry them around, pennies in a gigantic rucksack, lending weight to his every move? Do they wait to be sold or bartered for charity, food or fancy cars? That ache in his back, are the pesky runs the ones causing it, or the bag which grows along with the little mites? What will he do with them when he dies?

And that, is the question we ask of life via Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar's runs.