Arunabha Sengupta (born

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) 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

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Writer at CricketCountry.com and Scoreline.org

Books

* ''Elephant in the Stadium

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May 2022 - 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

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This was shortlisted for the Derek Hodgson

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Book of the Year Award 2022. This was also listed as one of The Times' Best Sports Books of 2022. Alyson Rudd, chairperson of the

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, 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." * ''The Ashes: This Thing Can Be Done

CricketMASH Mar 2022 - 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 * ''Sachin and Azhar in Cape Town

co-written with Abhishek Mukherjee Pitch Publishin

Jan 2021 - 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

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* ''Apartheid: A Point to Cover

CricketMASH May 2020 - 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

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* ''Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of The Ashes

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pastiche involving the legendary fictional detective in the backdrop of the epochal 1882 Test match at The Oval. This was shortlisted for the

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and MCC Book of the Year Award in 2016. This was republished by Max Books in 2016 * ''The Best Seller

Createspace November 2010 - A novel set in Amsterdam, dealing with, among others, the travels and travails of a struggling writer in the murky publishing world. ForeWord Reviews rated the novel 5 stars. * ''Big Apple 2 Bites

(Frog Books, Mumbai March 2007) - a novel combining the worlds of Software, Love and Aikido and set against the backdrop of

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. (The author himself is a first dan black belt in

Kobayashi Aikido Kokusai Aikidō Kenshūkai Kobayashi Hirokazu Ha (国際合気道研修会小林裕和派) is the school of aikido propagated by Hirokazu Kobayashi (1929–1998) (not Yasuo Kobayashi) disciple of the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969 ...

.) * ''Bowled Over - Stories Between the Covers

Both Labyrinth and Bowled Over were listed in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature * ''Labyrinth - a novel about the Software Industry'' (iUniverse, Inc. June 5, 2006) (First published by

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* His writing also appears alongside luminaries like

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and

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in ''Lessons on Lessons '' - a collection of essays on the insights gained from the biographical work ''Lessons'' by

P. Lal Purushottama Lal (28 August 1929 – 3 November 2010), commonly known as P. Lal, was an Indian poet, essayist, translator, professor and publisher. He was the founder of publishing firm Writers Workshop in Calcutta, established in 1958. Life a ...

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