Pundits From Pakistan: On Tour With India

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Here’s a book that vividly brings alive the magic of cricket witnessed by a young Indian discovering Pakistan. In 2004 the Indian cricket team headed to Pakistan to play a historic series. Accompanying them was young cricket reporter Rahul Bhattacharya. The mood was tense, with political provocations and security fears. But as the archrivals met on the field, a rare spirit of bonhomie spread throughout the tour. And in streets and homes in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Multan, the author had many warm human encounters that made the tour unforgettable. This book vividly brings alive the magic of cricket, even as it chronicles an emotional and hopeful time, witnessed by a young Indian discovering Pakistan.

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Rahul Bhattacharya was born in Bombay in 1979. His first book, Pundits from Pakistan, won the Crossword Award for Popular Book in 2005. His first novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care won the Hindu Literature Prize for Best Fiction in 2011