Biographies, Memoirs and General Non-Fiction Books
BISAC Subject Heading
BIO016000
Book Subcategory
Biographies and Autobiographies
ISBN10
9781644297261
Language
English
Contributors
Author Info
An eight-year-old lad from Lucknow landed with his family at Delhi’s Mall Road in 1945 to find the British officers playing cricket in the vicinity. He walked across an almost deserted road to the Delhi University cricket ground and watched the inter-college cricket tournament. It was a scenario that enchanted him. Moreover, as a natural outcome, that boy was soon playing cricket for his school, college and club and went on to become India’s pioneer Hindi cricket commentator. On the way there was conflict between passion and profession. Zoology weaned him away from the cricket crease, but not completely. He made the commentary box his own. Rest is a fable! Educated at Delhi University, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the University of Windsor, Canada, he kept a perfect balance between his profession (Zoology teaching) and his passion (commentary). His tryst with journalism pitchforked him to the national and international reckoning.