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From Pataudi to Proust
The Write Approach
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Literary writers occasionally write on their passion for sport. Thus Joyce Carol Oates on boxing, Nabokov on chess, Stephen Jay Gould on baseball, John Updike on golf. The traffic is seldom in the other direction.
Suresh Menon’s Why Don’t You Write Something I Might Read? Reading, Writing and Arrhythmia is an attempt to redress that – a sportswriter writing on his passion for literature.
No one straddles the two worlds as easily and with such impact as Ramachandra Guha, the great historian as celebrated for his writings on cricket. Here he is in conversation with Menon.
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Suresh Menon
Suresh Menon is Contributing Editor, The Hindu. He was one of the youngest sports editors in the country before he became one of its youngest editors with the New Indian Express. He has reported from all the cricket-playing countries in a career spanning over three decades. His books include Bishan: Portrait of a Cricketer, Pataudi: Nawab of Cricket, and Sachin: Genius Unplugged. For The Hindu, he writes a weekly cricket column, Between Wickets, and a general column, ABOUT 500 WORDS.
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha was born and raised in the Himalayan foothills. He studied in Delhi and Kolkata, and has lived for many years in Bengaluru. His many books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods; a landmark history of the Republic, India after Gandhi; and an authoritative biography of Mahatma Gandhi, both volumes of which were chosen by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year. He has written multiple books on Cricket.
Having previously taught at Oslo, Stanford and the London School of Economics, he is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University. Guha’s awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, the Howard Milton Award of the British Society for Sports History, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian culture. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in the humanities from Yale University.
