Arunabha Sengupta

Arunabha Sengupta (born Kolkata, India, 13 June 1973) is an Indian sports writer and novelist.

He has written three non-fiction volumes on cricket history with a socio-political perspective as well as four novels and one collection of short stories. He is a cricket historian and a Cricket Writer at CricketCountry.com[1] and Scoreline.org[2]

Books

  • Elephant in the Stadium[1] Pitch Publishing [2] May 2022 ISBN 978-1-8015-0094-4[3][4]

– The story of India's epochal Test series win in England in 1971. With the series as the main theme, the book is also a look at the complex relationship between India and Britain through the days of colonial rule to the modern day. It has an introduction by Mihir Bose

The book was shortlisted for the Derek Hodgson Cricket Writers' Club Book of the Year Award 2022.[5]

The title was also shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards 2023 in the Heartaches' Cricket Book of the Year category[6]

The book was listed as one of The Times' Best Sports Books of 2022.[7] Alyson Rudd, chairperson of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, adjudged it to be the best cricket book of 2022. She wrote: "It was a quiet year for cricket books, but arguably the best is Elephant in the Stadium, by Arunabha Sengupta, which is a social history and as much about the legacy of colonialism as it is about India’s first Test series win in England in 1971."[8]

The book was also longlisted for the MCC Cricket Society Book of the Year Award 2023[9]


– A history of The Ashes in a graphic novel format. It is co-written with artist and sports-illustrator Maha and has an introduction by Stephen Chalke

– India and South Africa, the countries and their cricket, through the prism of the incredible partnership between Tendulkar and Azharuddin in the Newlands Test of 1997. It has an introduction by Harsha Bhogle

– A history of South African cricket during the apartheid era 1948–1970 leading up to the Stop The Seventy Tour campaign. It has an introduction by Peter Hain

– A Sherlock Holmes pastiche involving the legendary fictional detective in the backdrop of the epochal 1882 Test match at The Oval. This was shortlisted for the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award in 2016.[15] This was republished by Max Books in 2016[16]

– A novel set in Amsterdam, dealing with, among others, the travels and travails of a struggling writer in the murky publishing world. ForeWord Reviews[17] rated the novel 5 stars.

– a novel combining the worlds of Software, Love and Aikido and set against the backdrop of 9/11. (The author himself is a first dan black belt in Kobayashi Aikido.)

  • Bowled Over – Stories Between the Covers[10]

Both Labyrinth and Bowled Over were listed in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature[21]

"True picture of the Indian workplace" – Book Review India, vol 30 No 7 July 6[22]

  • His writing also appears alongside luminaries like Khushwant Singh and Pritish Nandy in Lessons on Lessons – a collection of essays on the insights gained from the biographical work Lessons by P. Lal

References

  1. ^ "Cricket Writer at CricketCountry". Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Cricket Writer at Scoreline.org". Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  3. ^ Review of Elephant in the Stadium on Cricketweb
  4. ^ Review of Elephant in the Stadium on CricketStatistics by Andrew Roberts
  5. ^ "Derek Hodgson Book Award 2022 shortlist announced, 10 titles in contention | Cricket Writers' Club".
  6. ^ "2023 Shortlists | Sports Book Awards in association with The Sunday Times".
  7. ^ The best sports books of 2022 – which one should you read? The Times, 15 December 2022
  8. ^ The best sports books of 2022 – which one should you read? The Times, 15 December 2022
  9. ^ "Book of the Year Shortlist Announced | MCC".
  10. ^ Review of The Ashes: This Thing Can Be Done on Cricketweb
  11. ^ Review of Sachin and Azhar in Cape Town on Cricketweb
  12. ^ Review of Apartheid: A Point to Cover on Cricketweb
  13. ^ Review of Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes on Cricketcountry
  14. ^ Review of Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes on CricketWeb
  15. ^ Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year List
  16. ^ Max Books Publication
  17. ^ ForeWord Reviews
  18. ^ The Tribune
  19. ^ The Dawn
  20. ^ Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2008 by Shyamala Narayan
  21. ^ JCL 2005
  22. ^ Book Review India Archived 3 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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