Not Just Cricket

A wonderful memoir . . . richly insightful and deeply moving Ramachandra Guha Eminent journalist Pradeep Magazines memoir is a story of lived real experiences of joy sorrow fear loss and hope and about how an uprooted identity shapes ones attitude towards society and the nation. From the Kashmir of the 1950s to terrorstricken Punjab from the MandirMasjid divide and the impact of Mandal politics to the tragic consequences of the Kashmir situationMagazine paints a fascinating portrait of modern India. At the core of the book are accounts of some of the most epochal events in Indias cricketing history woven around personal encounters with several wellknown cricketers. The author lays bare the vicious machinations that are a staple diet of sports governance and reveals hitherto unknown facts about the frictions and ego clashes that are inevitable in a game that dominates Indias sporting discourse. Whether it is cricket that youre keen on or Indias troubled history Not Just Cricket is a mustread.