Mukul Kesavan

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'''Mukul Kesavan''' (born 9 April 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jmi.ac.in/upload/employeeresume/mkesavan.pdf|title=Employers Resume|access-date=2 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915072230/http://jmi.ac.in/upload/employeeresume/mkesavan.pdf|archive-date=15 September 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2020}} is an Indian historian, novelist and political and social essayist. He was schooled at St. Xaviers' School in Delhi and then went on to study History at St. Stephen's College, and at the [[University of Delhi]]. He later attended [[Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge]] on an Inlaks scholarship, where he received an [[MLitt]] degree.

His first book, a novel titled ''Looking Through Glass'' (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994) received international critical acclaim. In 2001 he wrote a political tract titled ''Secular Common Sense'' which was published by Penguin India. He teaches social history at [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] in Delhi.

Kesavan writes frequently about the game of cricket. His book on cricket, ''Men in White'', was published by Penguin India in 2007. He also wrote a blog by the same name on cricinfo.com.

Kesavan is also the author of ''The Ugliness of the Indian Male and Other Propositions,'' published by Black Kite in 2008. The book is a collection of essays on a wide variety of themes ranging from Indian films to Indian men to travel writing to political commentary. His latest book, titled ''Homeless on Google Earth'' (2013), published by Permanent Black, is a collection of several previous columns and opinion essays alongside some previously unpublished essays.

Kesavan is the co-editor of ''Civil Lines'', a widely respected journal of Indian writing in English. In 2014, ''[[The New Republic]]'' included his ''[[Homeless on Google Earth]]'' in its list of the year's best books, describing Kesavan as "[a] novelist and essayist, a historian and poet, a social commentator and public intellectual, [who] commands an enviable following in the Anglophone world beyond America and Britain".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/120663/best-global-non-fiction-2014|title=Best global non-fiction 2014|access-date=2 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517115249/https://newrepublic.com/article/120663/best-global-non-fiction-2014|archive-date=17 May 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

His columns have appeared in ''The Telegraph''[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051002/asp/opinion/story_5308810.asp], ''[[Cricinfo]]'', ''Outlook Magazine'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Archived copy|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/author.asp?name=Mukul+Kesavan|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013171652/http://outlookindia.com/author.asp?name=Mukul+Kesavan|archive-date=2007-10-13|access-date=2007-08-21}}</ref> Mint and several other periodicals and journals.

His mother, Dr. Chandrakanta Narain, was Punjabi, born in Lahore and brought up in Delhi.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kesavan|first=Mukul|date=28 March 2016|title=A different slogan|newspaper=The Telegraph|location=India|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-different-slogan/cid/1448231#.VvkVEcvhXqA|url-status=live|access-date=1 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302210359/https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-different-slogan/cid/1448231#.VvkVEcvhXqA|archive-date=2 March 2019}}</ref> His father [[B. S. Kesavan]], a writer, was also the highly regarded curator of the National Library in Calcutta.

He lives in New Delhi with his wife, the UNDP lawyer Arundhati Das and their two children.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite journal |authors=Satish Padmanabhan, Mani Shankar Aiyar, David Davidar, Mukul Kesavan, Nilanjana Roy and Sunil Sethi |date=12 January 2015 |title=Word Psmiths in the city : book jacket on my sleeve |journal=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=26–36 |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/word-psmiths-in-the-city/292930 |access-date=2016-01-06}}
*{{cite journal |authors=Mani Shankar Aiyar, David Davidar, Mukul Kesavan, Nilanjana Roy and Sunil Sethi |date=12 January 2015 |title=Ink, mortar and canon |journal=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=40–66 |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/ink-mortar-and-canon/292972 |access-date=2016-01-06}}

==External links==
* [http://blogs.cricinfo.com/meninwhite/ Mukul Kesavan's cricket blog]

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