After a performance is over, when the arena is vacant, you need a story teller to reconstruct the exploits of past masters. Performers do their act and leave the task of chiseling it in history to the sports writers. Mere recounting of facts is deglorifying sport. We need heroes. We need dare devils. We need thrillers. We need the emotion.
Sport elevates spirits. To soak in that and tell the tale next day you need to be an artist.
I wish every article in Sportstar is written by Rohit Brijnath. Or better, I wish every word in the 3 sports pages every day is written by him.
Sure the classical chess is glorious, but who can deny the beauty in blitz? I don’t know if Rohit has written any magnum opus yet, but the 2000 words that he assembles every now and then sure delights sports connoisseurs. I wish he comes up with biographies and history of tournaments. You need more Rohits to capture the magic of sports in its sensational form.
Fun and jest are as much part of his articles as they are in a circus. But just don’t dismiss him to be silly, because along with them he serves you the finest literary creativity. Add the knowledge of a historian and analysis reminiscent of foreign affairs expert, you get a Rohit's article.
The flip side of getting addicted to Rohit is the fear of being opinionated. The moment I see a sports article, I look for the author. This biases. Only a cursory look at the article if it is any author other than Rohit. The article finishes in half the time.
