Mihir Bose's Blog, page 16

Two-faced Britain: My 50 years in the land of lions and lambs

Brexit shows a British duality familiar to India, jewel in its crown, and Ireland, its oldest colony Irish Times In 1938 Pietro Quaroni, Italy’s ambassador in Afghanistan, visited British-ruled India and concluded that the British had two faces: the metropolitan face of Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus and the Mother of Parliaments which only Westerners saw. […]

Ind vs Eng: Indian fast bowlers quicker than England pacers at Trent Bridge

www.mid-day.com  In August 1971 I stood rooted at one spot as I watched Ajit Wadekar’s men create history at the Oval by winning for the first time in England. I dared not move as early that morning, as India chased 173, Wadekar had been run out and I feared if I moved the psychic forces […]

for the first time in history maybe Indian pacers were faster than English seamers

Ind vs Eng: Indian fast bowlers quicker than England pacers at Trent Bridge www.mid-day.com  In August 1971 I stood rooted at one spot as I watched Ajit Wadekar’s men create history at the Oval by winning for the first time in England. I dared not move as early that morning, as India chased 173, Wadekar […]

After Saturday at the England-India 3rd test at Nottingham…

Listen to Mihir being interviewed for News 18 – UK Edition after watching the cricket on Saturday.

The British must decide if they are lions or lambs

Evening Standard Four years ago, while on holiday in Yorkshire, my wife and I met a farmer who admitted that he relied heavily on EU subsidies but said that he would vote to leave the European Union. The money did not matter. There were far too many people flooding into this country. Then, having told […]

Mihir was one of the participants in the first Khushwant Singh Literary Festival to be held in London

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Indian Premier League – South Asia’s sporting mosaic

Mihir writes on Indian Premier League cricket in the Indian International Centre Quarterly.  Read it here The great Indian story.  

Mihir’s documentary on immigration to air on Monday 23 April at 9pm, London Live

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I arrived as a student from India nine months after Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech and for my first three decades here lived in the shadow of it. I was called a Paki and told to go home. In 1969 a landlady in Hampstead said she could not rent me the bedsit advertised in The Times because “my husband would not like that”.

In the Eighties I was thumped by a skinhead on a crowded Central line train, and saw the ugly face of the beautiful game when reporting football matches for The Sunday Times. As the only non-white football reporter in the mainstream media, my presence often raised eyebrows from football managers, with one suggesting I was reporting the wrong sport.

Mihir to speak at one of the largest and most significant literary festivals in India

Mihir has just set off for India where he is to be one of the guest speakers at the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters a celebration of Indian, Malayalam and World Literature @mbifl2018 from 2-4 February in Thriuvananthapuram, Southern India. He will be interviewing the distinguished politician Dr Shashi Tharoor about his forthcoming book ‘Why I am a Hindu?’ and he will also be talking on ‘Good game, bad game’ On money, racism and doping in sports.

About the lecture on Subhas Chandra Bose…