New Delhi: On a sunny Tuesday, Lutyens’ Delhi had two international sports celebrities with separate agendas. While golf superstar Tiger Woods, on a hurricane private corporate tour, was scorching one green to another at the Delhi Golf Club, not so far away, the darling of a billion Indians, Sachin Tendulkar, was breaking another ‘record’. The retired cricketing genius became the first sportsperson to be bestowed the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, by President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan

At 40, Tendulkar, dressed in a black bandhgala and accompanied by his wife Anjali and daughter Sarah, became the youngest recipient of the Bharat Ratna. Tendulkar, who retired from all forms of international cricket in November last year, beat legendary hockey wizard the late Dhyan Chand to the highest civilian honour of India. The Bharat Ratna was also given to eminent scientist Professor CNR Rao as well on Tuesday. Professor Rao is exactly double of Tendulkar’s age

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