Boria Majumdar's Books

Banned

A Social Media Trial

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A social media trial can break you. There were 100,000 tweets of abuse for days on end, all premised on a set of untruths pushed by someone hugely powerful because he had played for the national team. Against the entitled, I never stood a chance. The online trial forced me and the family to draw on every last bit of inner strength, and yet left permanent scars. Having served the ban, I wanted closure in the form of this book. But no one knows better that there will never be a full stop. I will not get back the two years of opportunities that I lost, or the days and evenings when I was almost a stranger to my daughter. For two years, my wife and I never had a quiet dinner where we could just relax. There was not one evening when we didn’t discuss the issue and the book. Which outsider can quantify the impact it had on the mental health of my family? On my wife, my mother, my sister and my daughter? I became cynical about a number of things, and it will be tough to change that. Writing this book and putting the truth out there has drained and exhausted me. The truth is that the falsehoods piled up against me, ratified by all-knowing social media trolls, changed my life and that of my family. There is no going back to what we were. This was our Long Covid.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

8197042659

ISBN 13

9788197042652

Maverick Commissioner

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Maverick Commissioner

By: Boria Majumdar

The Indian Premier League. Its mere mention forces cricket fans across the world to sit up and take notice. World cricket’s most valued property has only grown stronger with time. Conceived and implemented by Lalit Modi in 2008, the IPL has forever revolutionised the way cricket is marketed and run globally. Modi had built and orchestrated the tournament by his own rules and after the stupendous success of the IPL, the same rules were questioned by the administration. Modi was subsequently banned for life. How and why did it happen? What went on behind the scenes? How did it all start to go wrong between Modi and the others? Are there secrets that will never come out? This book is all about everything you never got to know. Each fact corroborated by multiple sources who were in the thick of things, Maverick Commissioner is a riveting account of the IPL and the functioning of its founder, Lalit Kumar Modi. Did Modi have a long telephone conversation with a BCCI top brass the day he left India for good? What really was discussed? Is Lalit Modi the absent present for the IPL and Indian cricket? Soon to be made into a film by Vibri Motion Pictures, Maverick Commissioner documents things exactly as they happened. No holds barred and no questions left out. It doesn’t judge Lalit Modi. All it does is narrate his story. Who is the real Lalit Modi? Let the readers decide.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

136

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

9392099053

ISBN 13

9789392099052

Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians

The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians

The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond

By: Boria Majumdar

Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians goes deep into every Indian cricket tour since 1886—taking the reader backstage to when India played its first test in 1932, and bringing the story forward to the more contemporary IPL—to provide a complex and nuanced understanding of the evolution and maturity of the game. Equally, it comes with material that has have never entered the public domain so far—going behind the scenes of cases like Monkeygate, the suspension of Lalit Modi, spot-fixing, and the phase of judicial intervention. It carries not just reportage and analysis, but also player reminiscences, personal interviews, photographs and letters never known or discussed so far in Indian sporting discourse. Weaving together such material, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians unflinchingly confronts questions that demand answering, among them: Has internal bickering impacted the on field performance of the Indian cricket team? Did some of our icons fail the country and the sport by trying to conceal important facts during the spot-fixing investigation? And does it matter to the ordinary fan who heads the BCCI as long as there is transparency and accountability in the system? In the end, in telling the story of the role of cricket in colonial and post-colonial Indian life, and the inter-relationship between those who patronize, promote, play and view the sport. Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians unravels the story of a nation now considered the financial nerve centre of world cricket.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

513

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

9386797194

ISBN 13

9789386797193

Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians

The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians

The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond

By: Boria Majumdar

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

513

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

9386797194

ISBN 13

9789386797193

Lost Histories of Indian Cricket

Battles Off the Pitch

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lost Histories of Indian Cricket

Battles Off the Pitch

By: Boria Majumdar

Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game. It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indians have been reticent and much of the past has been obscured and lost. Majumdar here recovers this history and restores it to its rightful place in India's rich sporting heritage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

157

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134243367

ISBN 13

9781134243365

Sachin @ 50

Celebrating a Maestro

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sachin @ 50

Celebrating a Maestro

By: Boria Majumdar

For more than two generations of Indians, and cricket fans from elsewhere, Sachin Tendulkar is a name that opened doors and hearts wherever you were on the planet. Even in the days before the social media revolution, Sachin was a truly global icon. It didn’t matter if you were in Sydney or South Africa, Kolkata or Kingston, Sachin’s name was a conversation starter. The teenage wonder who exploded into the global consciousness with his bloodied nose in Pakistan in 1989, before becoming the greatest batting sensation ever, transcended the boundaries of sport. As with Jesse Owens, Ali, Pele and Maradona, Sachin’s role in making Indian cricket a household phenomenon globally can never be underestimated. It was not just the runs he scored. It was the manner in which he scored them – with matchless flair, scoring 100 international hundreds in the process. How do we celebrate Sachin on his 50th birthday? The prodigy with the baby voice, scoring hundreds in abundance with the exuberance of the teenager that he was then? The legend who won India many a close encounter? Or the genius around whom a very good Indian side was built in the 1990s? For a generation of fans who grew up in the 1980s and 90s, it was always Sachin and then daylight. Many of them have also passed on now, but the stories they shared with their children will always remain. On his 50th birthday it is time to add to these stories. The very best from India and beyond on the man they adore. Like Sachin, his stories are also immortal.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

238

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

939209955X

ISBN 13

9789392099557

Odisha and Sports

A Story of Hope and Glory

By: Boria Majumdar,Vineel Krishna Ravella

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Odisha and Sports

A Story of Hope and Glory

By: Boria Majumdar,Vineel Krishna Ravella

For decades, Odisha was considered as one of India’s most backward states. But under the leadership of Naveen Patnaik, it has made huge strides in every sphere, from human-development indices and disaster management to becoming the role model for India’s future sporting programme. This book, co-authored by Boria Majumdar, one of India’s best known sports scholars and commentators, and Vineel Krishna, Secretary Sports for the Government of Odisha, is an attempt to make sense of that transformation, especially in the sporting space. It is a tale of what can happen when a wealth of untapped talent is harnessed by proper administration and planning, and the creation of state-of-the-art infrastructure. It is the story of how a state stepped in at the last minute to stage a major event, and how its success turned into a springboard for future endeavours. It documents the sea change that has been witnessed in the past half-decade, with the creation of world-class stadia, high-performance centres and hostels to house the most talented kids from the relatively under-developed regions of the state. It’s also testament to the resilience and determination of the athletes, many of whom have overcome colossal odds to shine on the world stage. Most of all though, it’s a story of hope – of what can happen when a government prioritises its people and recognises the power of sport to bring about lasting and positive social change.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

189

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

8196754744

ISBN 13

9788196754747

Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947

By: Boria Majumdar

This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to cross class barriers and had a healthy following even outside the aristocracy and upper middle classes well over a century ago. Indeed, in some ways, the democratization of the sport anticipated the democratization of the Indian polity itself. Boria Majumdar reveals the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of cricketing ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist ends. He exposes a sport rooted in the contingencies of the colonial and post-colonial context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. Cricket, to put it simply, is much more than a ‘game’ for Indians. This study describes how the genealogy of their intense engagement with cricket stretches back over a century. It is concerned not only with the game but also with the end of cricket as a mere sport, with Indian cricket’s commercial revolution in the 1930s, with ideals and idealism and their relative unimportance, with the decline of morality for reasons of realpolitik, and with the denunciation, once and for all, of the view that sport and politics do not mix. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317970136

ISBN 13

9781317970132

Cooking On The Run

An Average Indian Man's Encounter With Food

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cooking On The Run

An Average Indian Man's Encounter With Food

By: Boria Majumdar

Need a compass to find your way around the kitchen? Need your mum to help you fry an egg? Then Cooking on the Run is for you. It has all the crucial cooking tips you need to survive - easy shortcuts to a scrumptious meal, in minimal time, without too much effort. Learn how to whip up a basic vegetable stew. Master the complexities of the chicken biriyani. Even serve up traditional Indian desserts like kheer kamla or semaiyar payesh. There are recipes both traditional, like the mouth-watering aloo posto, and innovative, such as the pumpkin prawn and 'jumble' rice. Sports historian, journalist and writer Boria Majumdar writes about his hilarious adventures while navigating the treacherous culinary route, and discovering the joy and empowerment that comes with cooking. This is the ultimate clueless-Indian-man-evolves story. And who better than Boria to dole out useful tips on how to juggle a hectic lifestyle and long work hours in a foreign country, and still manage to eat healthy ghar ka khana? A must-have manual for every Indian man who's living his life on the run.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

166

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published Date

ISBN 10

9350299453

ISBN 13

9789350299456

Dreams of a Billion

India and the Olympic Games

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dreams of a Billion

India and the Olympic Games

By: Boria Majumdar

As India gears up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the country will focus once again on the moments of glory we have had on the largest sports arena in the world, featuring such stalwarts as Abhinav Bindra, Mary Kom and PV Sindhu. But it will also be time to ask again the question we ask ourselves every four years: why does a country of a billion plus have so little to show for itself at the Olympics?Dreams of a Billion gives the reader an inside view of what goes on backstage in the Indian Olympics world, alongside a quick history of how India has fared at the Olympics over the past century, and a look at how the Indian Olympics world has changed in the last decade. Which brings us to the question: How good is India's preparation for Tokyo 2020? Can Tokyo be the gamechanger Indian sport wants it to be and hopes it will be?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

389

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published Date

ISBN 10

9353576016

ISBN 13

9789353576011

Feluda @ 50

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Feluda @ 50

By: Boria Majumdar

In 1965, Satyajit Ray, drawing from the detective tradition made popular by characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, created a character who would go on to influence Bengalis of an entire generation: Feluda. And when Soumitra Chatterjee played the dapper detective in the film Sonar Kella, a cult was born. Fifty years later, the cult endures. Every new Feluda film has the box office in a tizzy. Feluda@50 seeks to explore the phenomenon. What makes Feluda tick? What is it that we love about this man? Why is it that every Feluda film continues to run to packed houses for weeks and months on end in an otherwise struggling Bengali film industry? What is the way forward for the franchise in the years to come? What role do Feluda's sidekicks, Topshe and Lalmohan-babu, play? The book also delves deep into Ray's motivations for keeping Feluda cocooned from contemporary politics and never allowing him to have a love interest. Also including in-depth interviews with the three stars who have played Feluda onscreen, this is the quintessential fan tribute and a celebration of Feluda on the occasion of the sleuth's fiftieth anniversary.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

216

Publisher

HarperCollins India

Published Date

ISBN 10

9351777901

ISBN 13

9789351777908

Olympics -The India Story

By: No Author

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Olympics -The India Story

By: No Author

A pioneering and long-awaited book ... a delightful read' -Hindustan Times 'The first detailed history of India's Olympic experience ... a valuable addition to contemporary knowledge'-India Today When and how did the Olympic movement take root in India? Who were the early players and why did they appropriate Olympic sport to further their political ambitions? In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote. Olympics: The India Story sets that right. Drawing on previously unused archival sources, it demonstrates that India was an important strategic outpost in the Olympic family. It explores why the Indian elite became obsessed with the Olympic ideal at the turn of the twentieth century and how this relates to India's quest for a meaningful role on the international stage. First published to critical acclaim in 2008, this revised edition includes a new, incisive chapter on India's medal prospects at the London Olympics, thus bringing India's Olympic story up-to-date.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

389

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published Date

ISBN 10

9350295091

ISBN 13

9789350295090

Cooking On The Run

An Average Indian Man's Encounter With Food

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cooking On The Run

An Average Indian Man's Encounter With Food

By: Boria Majumdar

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

166

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published Date

ISBN 10

9350299453

ISBN 13

9789350299456

Dreams of a Billion

India and the Olympic Games

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dreams of a Billion

India and the Olympic Games

By: Boria Majumdar

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

389

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published Date

ISBN 10

9353576016

ISBN 13

9789353576011

Banned

A Social Media Trial

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Banned

A Social Media Trial

By: Boria Majumdar

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

8197042659

ISBN 13

9788197042652

Sellotape Legacy

Delhi And The Commonwealth Games

By: Boria Majumdar,Nalin Mehta

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sellotape Legacy

Delhi And The Commonwealth Games

By: Boria Majumdar,Nalin Mehta

The Commonwealth Games are Delhi's biggest sporting event ever. As the promise of hosting them envelops Delhi there are questions that loom large, unasked and ominous: Who will emerge the winner in this contest to present Delhi as a true global city? Will Indian sport gain at all? How much is it costing the person on the street? Who has actually benefited from all the digging and window-dressing? And who has lost livelihoods, dreams, perhaps even lives? This book is the story of the politics of these Games, the money that is being spent and the priorities that have shaped it. With access to hitherto unused archives, including primary documents from the first-ever British Empire Games in 1930, this book is also the first and only attempt to place Delhi 2010 in perspective within the history of the Commonwealth Games, their meaning and indeed the larger question of why we need a Commonwealth at all. Explaining what all this means for India, it provides a unique understanding of the Delhi Games in its entirety.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

328

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published Date

ISBN 10

9351360679

ISBN 13

9789351360674

India and the Olympics

By: Boria Majumdar,Nalin Mehta

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

India and the Olympics

By: Boria Majumdar,Nalin Mehta

The Olympic movement, including the relevant records and statistics, provides a unique prism to understand the complex evolution of modern Indian society. Drawing on hitherto unused archival sources, this book examines the relations between India's place in the Olympic movement and the country's quest for a national and international identity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

405

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135275750

ISBN 13

9781135275754

Corridors Of Uncertainty

World Cup 2007 & Beyond

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Corridors Of Uncertainty

World Cup 2007 & Beyond

By: Boria Majumdar

The 2007 World Cup changed the terms of the debate around cricket. For India, the tournament turned out to be a national tragedy; for the first time in years there was a palpable weakening of the foundations of the country's universal obsession. For the hosts, West Indies, it almost put an end to the dream of creating a unified political, social and economic entity. For Australia, the world cup triumph was accompanied by a sense of deja vu which was evident in the muted celebrations.In the final analysis, for reasons of money, the ninth edition of the cup was bloated to accommodate sixteen teams for over a month and a half. Yet the tournament had no distinctive quality and no particular innovation, its format was dull and its title rendered meaningless in the process. What it did generate was heated discussions about the market, about the nature of profits, and about sportsmanship or the increasing lack of it.In this book, cricket historian Boria Majumdar analyses the many events and aspects of the World Cup, from the shocking death of Bob Woolmer to the dwindling television revenues in India. He examines the controversial legacy of the tournament and the importance of cricket, if any, in the shaping of contemporary societies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published Date

ISBN 10

9351360490

ISBN 13

9789351360490

Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947

By: Boria Majumdar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947

By: Boria Majumdar

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

275

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317970128

ISBN 13

9781317970125

Olympics

The India Story

By: Boria Majumdar,Nalin Mehta

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Olympics

The India Story

By: Boria Majumdar,Nalin Mehta

At A Time When Historians Around The World Are Increasingly Recognizing Global Stories Of Olympism As Crucial To Understanding The Working Of Societies, There Has Been No Detailed History Of India'S Olympic Experience. This Is A Glaring Anomaly For A Country That Became The First Colonized Nation To Join The Olympic Movement, One That Dazzled The World With Its Early Hockey Wins And One Whose Olympic History Contains Within Its Folds Hitherto Unknown Chapters Of The Development Of Indian Nationalism And Identity&This Monograph Is Unique Because It Is Built On As Yet Virgin Archive Of Indian History. For The First Time We Have Unlimited Access To The Hitherto Inaccessible 'Official' Archive Of The International Olympic Committee At The Ioc Museum In Lausanne, Switzerland.

Average ratings

N/A