The biography of remarkable cricketer Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the first athlete to get the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, is told in the book A Biography of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. This book charts the development of a phenomenally gifted adolescent from a Mumbai middle-class family into a legend and a world champion. The book takes the reader through the pulls and strains, as well as the moments of ecstasy and misery, that one of the greatest athletes of all time encountered and overcame during an illustrious career, starting with his early years as a cricket player and youth. The cliche "Cricket is a religion in India" is taken quite seriously in this novel. The article continues by breaking Sachin Tendulkar's incredible life into three parts and detailing each.