Mihir Bose's Blog, page 14

Business Standard: Review of The Nine Waves; The Extraordinary Story of Indian Cricket

The Cup that could change cricket

Telegraph of India India will surely beat Pakistan in one respect: well-off Indians eager to use the Indian team’s visit to parade their wealth. The 2019 World Cup could not have come at a more crucial time for English cricket. The game is at an important crossroads in the land which invented it; a wrong […]

Hindustan Times: Review of The Nine Waves; The Extraordinary Story of Indian Cricket

Mihir Bose relates stories and points out major inflection points in a scholarly book on Indian cricket Ayaz Memon Hindustan Times 563pp, Rs 999; Aleph The World Cup is upon us, which makes it fertile season for books on cricket. In the past few weeks, I’ve had four couriered to me. Alas, only four (though […]

Why Indians will be cheering for the Brits (Come on, you Spurs!)

London Evening Standard The British always give me the impression of a marvellously inventive people, be it in sport, art, popular entertainment or commerce, who are always surprised that the world notices their inventions and cannot believe that they have a universal appeal far beyond these islands. Football provides the latest illustration of this. This […]

An appreciation of my recent book Lion and Lamb by Ian Jack, one of our best known writers and journalists.

I enjoyed the book very much, particularly the personal narration of it and its use of concrete incident rather than generalisations and and abstractions – and its honesty about your own behaviour and  attitudes in the past. I also agree with its argument. My only quarrel with it is that it might be too kind […]

The Indian Legion in the Second World War

This programme was broadcast on France 24 about the Indian Legion organised by Germany during the Second World War. I was interviewed by France 24 for this programme. You can view the English version of the programme here  

INDIA ELECTIONS: Down Memory Lane

Asian Lite What these elections, and the subsequent ones have shown, is that elections in India are the one day that the poor feel they have as much power as the rich and the well off. For the five years of an Indian parliament the well-off call the tune. Indian elections are like a T20 […]

The centenary of the Amritsar massacre

BBC Radio Ulster On Sunday morning (21 April) I appeared on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence presented by Roisin McAuley talking of the Amritsar massacre whose centenary was on 13 April. It was great being interviewed by Roisin on this subject. It was featured in a podcast Everyday Ethics .  Here is the link.

Mihir Bose responds to a letter about his recent article on the centenary of the killings at Jallianwala Bagh

Letter to The Guardian Zareer Masani (Letters, 16 April) has neither read my article properly nor got his own facts right. In the article (A century on, Amritsar is an atrocity Britain must confront, 13 April), I clearly mentioned that Indians killed five British civilians. What Masani does not mention was that this came after […]

BREXIT: The British like to have their cake and eat it

Asian Lite News  A hard Brexit would go against the grain of British history for the British hate saying a final goodbye. The fact is they always want to have their cake and eat it. Boris doesn’t know how the British handles the negotiations. They are ramrod straight-talking people who set out what they want, […]