Jayanta Basu mourns the loss of his cricketing paradise and starts his Ode thus:
When he saw a packed Eden Gardens for the first time in 1972, English cricket writer E.W. Swanson was reminded of something a young army officer said about the war from which he had just returned: "The noise and the people!"
He goes on to list its fall from grace.
To me the Eden Garden was externally beautiful but internally flawed. It exhibited all that is ugly in a petulant child.
What is your feeling about the Eden Gardens?
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