‘If he’s in England, Mumbai bhool gaya. Mumbai gaya toh Ranchi bhool gaya. Woh jahaan hai, woh waheen hai. (When he’s in England, he forgets about Mumbai. When he’s in Mumbai, Ranchi is forgotten. He’s present wherever he is.) At that point, nothing else matters to him. That’s why everyone says he lives in the present.’ If true, then it kind of adds some gravitas to his peculiar, even infamous, comment on the New Zealand tour of 2009 about getting ready for a Test in Napier only eighteen hours after arriving in the city.
