Mukul Kesavan

Mukul Kesavan

Mukul Kesavan is an Indian writer and essayist. He studied History at the University of Delhi and later at Trinity College, Cambridge where he received his MLitt. His first book - Looking Through Glass (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994) received critical acclaim. He teaches social history at Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi. He's keen on the game of cricket[1] but in a non-playing way. His credentials for writing about the game are founded on a spectatorial axiom: distance brings perspective[2]. Kesavan's book of cricket,Men in White, was published by Penguin India in 2007. He wrote a blog by the same name on cricinfo.com. Later in the year he wrote, The Ugliness of the Indian Male and Other Propositions published by Black Kite. The book is a collection of essays on a wide variety of themes ranging from Indian films to Indian men to travel writing and even political commentary.

He is also the co-editor of Civil Lines, the widely respected journal of Indian writing in English.

His columns have appeared in The Telegraph[3], CricInfo and Outlook Magazine[4], among other places.

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