Ramachandra Guha - Sport and the Nation: Cricket and the Making of Modern India

Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer based in Bengaluru. His books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods (University of California Press, 1989), and an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, 2002), which was chosen by The Guardian as one of the ten best books on cricket ever written. India after Gandhi (Macmillan/Ecco Press, 2007; revised edition, 2017) was chosen as a book of the year by the Economist, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and as a book of the decade in the Times of London and The Hindu.

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You can remove a person from a cricketing culture, but you cannot remove cricket from the person. Good to see in this tiny gathering India, Pak and SA all cricket lovers being present to hear such a wonderful speaker.

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Pakistan is a banana republic and imf beggar

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Would have been a fascinating recounting of Indian cricket history but for the speaker’s haphazard and high-strung style of delivery and constant crackling of plastic water bottles being opened and water gulped noisily!

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Find the odd one out: 1. It's very true. India has no reason to ban Pakistan from playing in IPL, especially since Pakistan is the friendliest to India. 2. If IPL is imperialism, by the same definition, I think Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are imperialism too and they affect a much larger group of people. What is Mr. Guha's prescription for them?? 3. The commitment of Mr. Guha and Mr. Varshney to ideology and it's theory is so high that it's safe to say that they have crossed into the land of delusion.

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Option 1 is the odd one out cause that's the only one which consists of sarcasm.

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Even better .. Look at the face at 1:18:47 and imagine saying "peace will come to South Asia if Babar Azam plays IPL". Reminder: This is from a Historian.

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Itni jali teri ke yahan aa gaya gaali dene😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Having said so, India should host PNG, not Pakistan.

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Apple, Google, FB and MS are imperialism indeed. But Guha is much more concerned about IPL because he truly loves cricket.

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What ideology?😂😂😂. Point 3.

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Ram guha is actually a gu ha of india

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