Thanks to Sachin people know that Rajya Sabha exits

Author was this article was shocked, this week, to discover that an institution he once thought of as being a myth (like Santa Claus, dragons, and tasteful Marwadis), was in fact real. 

"The Rajya Sabha is apparently a real, actual thing. I always thought it was the sort of bedtime story politicians told their children to make them behave. "Beta go to sleep, or you'll wake up in the Rajya Sabha, where everyone's pointless and the only thing you're worth is one mark on a Civics exam.""

(Mid-Day)

Sachin RS Nomination - How media got it all wrong

At 1506hr yesterday rediff.com said:  "The Congress President is learnt to have talked in general about cricket and wished the player luck for his future" under the headline 

"15:06  Guess who came visiting Sonia? :  

Sachin Tendulkar along with his wife Anjali today paid a courtesy visit to
Congress President Sonia Gandhi at her 10 Janpath Residence in New Delhi. 
Sonia wanted to meet the batting great and personally congratulate him on achieving the historic feat of scoring 100 international centuries recently.

Senior BCCI functionary and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla was also present at Sonia Gandhi's residence. Tendulkar and his wife spent close to half an hour with Sonia. The Congress President is learnt to have talked in general about cricket and wished the player luck for his future."

Suddenly at rediff.com learnt that what it had learnt was not correct and :

18:51  Batting maestro, yesteryear actress get RS call:   Just in: TV reports say Sachin has accepted the RS nomination. Confirmation awaited. Sachin, apparently, gave his OK to Sonia Gandhi, when he met her this morning.