New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on Saturday paid tribute to his father Ramesh Tendulkar on Teachers' Day, recalling the guidance and values that shaped his journey, and announced the launch of the Professor Ramesh Tendulkar Memorial Fellowship.

Taking to social media platform X, Tendulkar said his father was the first person to recognise his passion for cricket and gave him the freedom to pursue his dreams.

"When I think about the people who shaped my journey, I do not begin with a cricket ground or a coach. I begin at home. Long before anyone outside my family knew my name, my father had begun to recognise my love for cricket and, perhaps more importantly, understand what it meant to me. He never knew exactly wher...