Ramachandra Guha is a polymath who happens to write superbly on cricket. Suresh Menon at Cricinfo:
When my son was graduating and looking into the future, a professor told him of the choices ahead: pure science, technology, public service, media, or, he said, “Ramachandra Guha”. This was the first I was hearing of Guha as a career option; the professor meant it as generic term for brilliance spread over a number of fields.
The challenge here is to write about Guha without dwelling on how he has been picked as one of the Top 100 public intellectuals in the world, or that he is the recipient of India’s third-highest civilian award, or that he is a historian, biographer, sociologist, environmentalist, anthropologist with profound, seminal works on each of these subjects. He is among the finest essayists and columnists around, with a range of interests that goes beyond even that list, and takes in music, science, literature, fiction, travel.
But this is about Guha the cricket writer, and – after acknowledging that his work in other fields must inform his writings on cricket, placing them in context and taking them into avenues others leave unexplored – we must descend from the general to the particular.
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