Sana Ganguly posts excerpt from Khushwant Singh’s ‘The End Of India’, daddy Saurav plays it down
The BCCI chief tweeted that his daughter is 'too young a girl to know about anything in politics'.
However, BCCI president and former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, on Wednesday, found himself forced to join the conversation, after daughter Sana's Instagram post quoting late author Khushwant Singh, who was highly critical of the right wing Sangh Parivar, went viral.
The 18-year-old posted an excerpt from Singh's book 'The End Of India' - that was published in 2003, when the BJP-led NDA government of prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in power at the Centre - on her Instagram Story, but later deleted it.
The excerpt read, "Every fascist regime needs communities and groups it can demonise in order to thrive. It starts with one group or two. But it never ends there. A movement built on hate can only sustain itself by continually creating fear and strife.
"Those of us today who feel secure because we are not Muslims or Christians are living in a fool's paradise. The Sangh is already targeting the Leftist historians and 'Westernized' youth. Tomorrow it will turn its hate on women who wear skirts, people who eat meat, drink liquor, watch foreign films, don't go on annual pilgrimages to temples, use toothpaste instead of danth manjan, prefer allopathic doctors to vaids, kiss or shake hands in greeting instead of shouting 'Jai Shri Ram'. No one is safe. We must realise this if we hope to keep India alive".
Screenshots of her post have gone viral, with Twitterati lauding her and calling her fearless; though her illustrious father didn't share their sentiments and took to Twitter to say that "she is too young a girl to know about anything in politics".
BCCI President @SGanguly99's daughter Sana Ganguly just won my heart by this post. Incredible maturity from an 18 y… https://t.co/7FNTfk8UlU
— Aparna (@chhuti_is) 1576597062000Sana Ganguly is the fearless Saurabh Ganguly we knew , Saurabh Ganguly now well is jist another spineless man on a… https://t.co/RMqIbKUhTk
— Roshan Rai (@TheRoshanRai) 1576690751000"Please keep Sana out of all this issues .. this post is not true .. she is too young a girl to know about anything in politics", Ganguly tweeted.
Please keep Sana out of all this issues .. this post is not true .. she is too young a girl to know about anything in politics
— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) 1576687472000Former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Shehla Rashid replied to Ganguly's tweet, saying he should be proud of his daughter.
@SGanguly99 Sir, you should be proud of her for saying the right thing. "Young girls" have as much a right to be political as old people.
— Shehla Rashid (@Shehla_Rashid) 1576690108000
'Prince of Kolkata' and 'God of off-side' are just phrases that try to define the legend that Sourav Ganguly is. Fondly known as 'Dada', Ganguly is considered as one of the greatest captains in the history of Indian cricket.
An incredibly-gifted player, Ganguly's 16-year cricketing career boasts of 311 ODIs where he scored 11,363 runs. The man who stands as the third-highest run-scorer for India in ODIs, has 22 centuries and 72 half-centuries in his name, in the limited-overs format.
The former skipper, who hung his boots from the game in 2008, has groomed several of India's finest players including Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Virender Sehwag.
After quitting the game 11 years ago, Dada went on to make his mark in other fields of life. Today, as the legend of Indian cricket turns 47, here's a peek at what Dada did after retiring from all forms of cricket.
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