Mukul Kesavan
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Mukul Kesavan is an Indian writer and essayist. He studied History at the University of Delhi
and later at Trinity College, Cambridge
where he received his MLitt. His first book - Looking Through Glass (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994) received critical acclaim. He teaches social history at Jamia Millia Islamia
in Delhi. He's keen on the game of cricket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6491053.stm but in a non-playing way. His credentials for writing about the game are founded on a spectatorial axiom: distance brings perspectivehttp://www.indiainsouthafrica.com/shared-histories/index1.html. Kesavan's book of cricket,Men in White, was published by Penguin India in 2007. He wrote a blog by the same name on cricinfo.com. Later in the year he wrote, The Ugliness of the Indian Male and Other Propositions published by Black Kite. The book is a collection of essays on a wide variety of themes ranging from Indian films to Indian men to travel writing and even political commentary.
He is also the co-editor of Civil Lines, the widely respected journal of Indian writing in English.
His columns have appeared in The Telegraphhttp://www.telegraphindia.com/1051002/asp/opinion/story_5308810.asp, CricInfo and Outlook Magazinehttp://www.outlookindia.com/author.asp?name=Mukul+Kesavan, among other places.
University of Delhi
The University of Delhi is a central university situated in Delhi, India and is funded by Government of India. Established in 1922, it offers courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari is the Chancellor of the university...
and later at Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
where he received his MLitt. His first book - Looking Through Glass (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994) received critical acclaim. He teaches social history at Jamia Millia Islamia
Jamia Millia Islamia
Jamia Millia Islamia is an Indian Central University located in Delhi. It was established at Aligarh in United Provinces, India in 1920. It became a Central University by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988...
in Delhi. He's keen on the game of cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6491053.stm but in a non-playing way. His credentials for writing about the game are founded on a spectatorial axiom: distance brings perspectivehttp://www.indiainsouthafrica.com/shared-histories/index1.html. Kesavan's book of cricket,Men in White, was published by Penguin India in 2007. He wrote a blog by the same name on cricinfo.com. Later in the year he wrote, The Ugliness of the Indian Male and Other Propositions published by Black Kite. The book is a collection of essays on a wide variety of themes ranging from Indian films to Indian men to travel writing and even political commentary.
He is also the co-editor of Civil Lines, the widely respected journal of Indian writing in English.
His columns have appeared in The Telegraphhttp://www.telegraphindia.com/1051002/asp/opinion/story_5308810.asp, CricInfo and Outlook Magazinehttp://www.outlookindia.com/author.asp?name=Mukul+Kesavan, among other places.