Take a walk.” If Ravi Shastri didn’t go uttering these words often to some of his chirpy opponents in his playing days, he surely carried that attitude in the thick of the battle.

On Monday evening, he had to walk a bit, quite literally before stepping into a lift that took him to the rooftop of the Trident hotel to be part of the launch of former sports writer, editor and newspaper proprietor Khalid A-H Ansari’s book, It’s a Wonderful World, published by Rupa & Co.