Boria Majumdar

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Boria Majumdar is an Indian sports journalist, academician and author.

Majumdar was born on 8 March 1976 at Kolkata. He completed his schooling from The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata. He completed his B.A. in History from Presidency College, University of Calcutta in the year 1997. In 1999 he did his M.A. in Modern History from the same university. He was awarded the Rhodes scholar in 1999-2000 and went to St John’s College, University of Oxford to do a DPhil on the Social History of Indian Cricket in October 2000. [1][2] He completed his doctorate in March 2004 and the thesis was subsequently nominated for publication in the Oxford monographs series. It was published in India by Penguin-Viking as the much acclaimed Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket in December 2004.

He co-authored Playing It My Way, the autobiography of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar along with Sachin.[3]

In 2018 his second book, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians: The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond, was published by Simon & Schuster.[4]

In 2019 he is senior research fellow in the School of Sport and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire.[1] Previously he has worked as distinguished visiting fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne and, since 2003, as visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago.[2]

Majumdar is married to Sharmistha Gupta.[2]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Professor Boria Majumdar | Staff Profile |University of Central Lancashire". UCLan - University of Central Lancashire. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Majumdar Boria : World Who's Who". www.worldwhoswho.com. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  3. Majumdar, Boria; Tendulkar, Sachin (6 November 2014). Playing It My Way: My Autobiography. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1473605206.
  4. Sen, Sudeep (25 May 2018). "Review: Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians by Boria Majumdar". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 11 January 2019.

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