Countering the fiercest pace bowlers in their prime, Aunshuman Gaekwad was always a picture of steely calm. Later as a coach, the former India opener was all grace, empathy and laughter with the last-mentioned attribute in full evidence when Anil Kumble got his ‘perfect 10’ against Pakistan at Delhi in 1999. His 81 against the West Indies at Kingston’s Sabina …
Countering the fiercest pace bowlers in their prime, Aunshuman Gaekwad was always a picture of steely calm. Later as a coach, the former India opener was all grace, empathy and laughter with the last-mentioned attribute in full evidence when Anil Kumble got his ‘perfect ten’ against Pakistan at Delhi in 1999. However in his battle against cancer, Gaekwad, Baroda’s mainstay …
Why did the genre of the memoir seem like the best way to tell Rekhabai’s story? How did the process of listening to your mother’s life story – which unfolds across various parts of India – alter your relationship with these places? At the end of your first book Lean Days, you remark, “A writer may never write if he …
