Asking about his future plans or his second innings after the retirement he said he will be giving time to his family, friends and all such people who supported him throughout his career of 24 years.
What is his motive from the book? His answer was “Satisfaction” which he explained in two phases. Firstly, the sale of the book would be to help a Mumbai based NGO Apnalaya fighting for women empowerment, differences in communities, malnutrition in children and to give a platform to those communities suffering a disadvantage.
The Second phase he explained was about spreading happiness. He talked about lighting up the houses which are lost in the darkness. It is the year 2014, and still many of households in the country are not having electricity.
"I knew that if I agreed to write my story, I would have to be completely honest, as that's the way I have always played the game and that would mean talking about a number of things I have not addressed in public before. So here I am, at the end of my final innings, having taken that last walk back to the pavilion, ready to recount as many incidents as I can remember since first picking up a cricket bat as a child in Mumbai thirty-five years ago, “Sachin Tendulkar said.
