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Visit to Pu La's house reminds Sachin Tendulkar of Sir Don Bradman

After visiting Deshpande's house, Tendulkar kicked off the 'I love PL' campaign to begin the PL Deshpande's birth centenary year celebrations

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Sachin Tendulkar at PL Deshpande’s house in Pune on Friday
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Had the legendary writer PL Deshpande been alive, he would have welcomed the legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with a garland of words when he visited the writer's house in Pune on Friday. However, Sachin was also not short of words where he described his visit by saying, "My feelings after visiting PL Deshpande's house are as same as they were when I had visited Sir Don Bradman's house."

The master blaster's visit to house of Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (aka Pu La) in Malati Madhav apartment on Bhandarkar road was for a purpose. After visiting Deshpande's house, Tendulkar kicked off the 'I love PL' campaign to begin the PL Deshpande's birth centenary year celebrations.

"I am speechless today. It is a big honour for me when the relatives of PL Deshpande invited me to visit his home. In the year 1998, I had visited Don Bradman's house and the feeling that I had got is the same when I visited 'Pu La's' house today," the master blaster said.

Though it was Tendulkar's first visit to the writer's house in Pune, he stated that his family always had very cordial relations with the Deshpande family. The master blaster's father Ramesh Tendulkar was also a known literary figure. He said, "My father and PL were very good friends. My father had shown me several letters which were written by PL to him."

"We were staying in Sahitya Sahavas Society where many noted literary figures would stay, but I clearly remember that there used to be a different kind of excitement when PL would visit our society. I had even stood up in a queue to get his autograph during one of his visits to our society," Tendulkar remembers.

On Tendulkar's visit to Deshpande's house on Friday, relatives of Deshpande gifted him a photo frame of him and PL. "This photograph was taken in the year 1996. It was taken at Thakur hospital in Shivaji Park area when I had gone to meet him. This photo has refreshed the memories of that day," he said.

Speaking about PL's literary contribution, Tendulkar said, "His writing would easily get connected with a common man. It came quite naturally to him. My generation derived a lot of happiness from his literature. The new generation now has technologically easy accessibility to his literary work and therefore, they should utilise this opportunity to go through his work."

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