'If fame, money and comfort are the only factors that drive us, then we are playing cricket for entirely the wrong reasons.'
'The obsession of the Pakistan army with India leads to several destabilising things. Support for the Taliban in Afghanistan. Support for groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, that have attacked India. Every time you get an attack like that there is a possibility of a war. And then the build up of the their nuclear arsenals. Chances of a nuclear weapon landing in the hands of a terrorist group, or a nuclear war breaking out, are tiny. But they are higher here than anywhere else in the world.'
Rediff.com reproduces the 1997 feature about Laxman, his passion for crows, and of course, his genius.
