Newsmaker: Milkha Singh - A post-partition cultural icon fades away ...United Arab Emirates

An obituary of him, up on the New York Times website on Wednesday, ran with a headline: ‘Milkha Singh, India’s post-colonial track star, is dead.’ It’s been almost a week that the legendary Indian athlete passed away, after having led a full life at 91 years, but the tributes haven’t stopped flowing. Such was the stature of the man - regarded as the greatest ever athlete of India - a country which does not have much to write home about in this sport at the global or Olympics level - that it was satisfying to see one of the flagships of US mainstream media doing an appraisal of the man. And putting things in right perspective by calling Milkha one of India’s biggest post-colonial heroes. Thi

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