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In 2004 the Indian cricket team headed to Pakistan to play a historic series. Accompanying them was young cricket reporter Rahul Bhattacharya. The mood was tense, with political provocations and security fears. But as the archrivals met on the field, a rare spirit of bonhomie spread throughout the tour. And in streets and homes in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Multan, the author had many warm human encounters that made the tour unforgettable. This book vividly brings alive the magic of cricket, even as it chronicles an emotional and hopeful time, witnessed by a young Indian discovering Pakistan.
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Published: May/2012
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Imprint: India Penguin
Published: May/2012
ISBN: 9788184756975
Length : Pages
In 2004 the Indian cricket team headed to Pakistan to play a historic series. Accompanying them was young cricket reporter Rahul Bhattacharya. The mood was tense, with political provocations and security fears. But as the archrivals met on the field, a rare spirit of bonhomie spread throughout the tour. And in streets and homes in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Multan, the author had many warm human encounters that made the tour unforgettable. This book vividly brings alive the magic of cricket, even as it chronicles an emotional and hopeful time, witnessed by a young Indian discovering Pakistan.
Rahul Bhattacharya was born in Bombay in 1979, and was part of a St. Xavier’s College team that comfortably failed to carry forward the legacy of Sunil Gavaskar and Ashok Mankad. He covered this tour for the Guardian and Wisden. Pundits from Pakistan won the 2005 Crossword Popular Book Award and was voted fourth-best cricket book of all time by the Wisden Cricketer, London, in 2010. His first novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care, won the Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. He lives in Delhi.