PCCI Podcast 🏏 BCCI's Dubai Office and the Saffronisation of Cricket with Sushant Singh
We had a freewheeling chat with Sushant Singh about Bangladesh’s omission from the T20 World Cup, ICC as the BCCI’s Dubai office, Hindutva and its reflections on how Indian cricket functions, sport’s culpability at letting oligarchs trample through the field, and lots of cricket memories.
Sushant Singh is a journalist, author, and lecturer in South Asian Studies at Yale University. He is the Consulting Editor at The Caravan, a columnist with The Telegraph and The Morning Context, and his work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, and The New Yorker. Cricket fans have more recently seen him on videos of The Caravan and read his writing on Cricket Et Al.
His piece on Mustafizur Rahman's exit from the IPL here
You can follow him on Twitter
Sushant's Recommendations
Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic HistoryBook by Ornit Shani and Rohit De
Osman Samiuddin's seminal piece - The Haal of Pakistan
Mohammed Hanif’s vlogs on BBC - Here
Links to Books, Pieces discussed on the Pod
Ehsan Mani's moving tribute to IS Bindra
Pundits from Pakistan (yes, again)
War Minus The Shooting (yes, again)
H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit
Corner of a Foreign Field by Ramachandra Guha