From Jadeja To Kambli, What Keeps an Incredible Week of Indian Cricket Relevant 25 Years Later?
Like most other things, cricket in the 90s too is viewed through a deeply romantic lens for two major reasons. This is particularly true of the 1996 World Cup.
The Indian cricket team celebrates its victory of Pakistan in the 1996 World Cup. Photo: Reuters
Sport15/Mar/2021
There is a reason the 1990s remain an unusually romanticised period in Indiaâs cultural memory. Academics have endlessly deliberated the social impact of the economic reforms introduced at the start of the decade. A new middle class emerged whose material aspirations were shaped by a wave of consumerism hitherto unseen and unheard of. The 90s certainly oversaw a metamorphosis of the Indian society and in a way, marks the point when the country stepped out of the shadow of its colonial past only to, well, westernise further.