India, Sept. 11 -- The tragic incident happened so long ago that now very few remember who Dhruva Mahender Pandove was. Dhruva was a contemporary of the great Sachin Tendulkar. He was a batting prodigy, too. Just at the age of 13, he made his first-class debut for Punjab. The way fans are excited for Vaibahav Sooryavanshi today, similarly, Dhruva was the cynosure of all eyes before death intervened and took him away on January 31, 1992, in Ambala.

What happened was this: Dhruva played a Deodhar Trophy game in Odisha and reached Ambala and from there he had to go to his parents' in Patiala. January in the north is a cold, foggy month, and often there is zero visibility on roads. Chetan Sharma, then still active as a cricketer, asked him t...