When Sachin Tendulkar launches a book written by a cricket analyst, it has to be about cricket, right? Strangely, no. The ace batsman has a hidden side that revealed itself quite surprisingly on Thursday evening at the Cricket Club of India’s (CCI) C K Nayudu Hall, when he released a book on food. Written by Boria Majumdar, the book titled Cooking On The Run, is “not a cook book” according to the author; rather the blurb proclaims it to be the “average man’s encounters with food”. Whatever you may want to call it, it does include recipes after all, the evening was made special by Sachin as he recalled his fondest memories of food. It seemed as if the publishers HarperCollins and Boria himself knew it would be so, as during the event, no one really mentioned the book or anything about Boria’s experience in writing it. The whole conversation between Boria and Sachin focused on the latter’s experiments with world cuisine and was eagerly eaten up by the select audience present.u00a0

Laugh it off: Sachin Tendulkar recalls a funny anecdote. Pics/Atul Kamble