Cricket as a novelty, an obsession, and as literature: interview with Samanth Subramanian

In this episode, we chat with journalist and author Samanth Subramanian. Samanth, an accomplished author and internationally renowned journalist, is a long-time cricket fan who began his career as a sub-editor at Cricinfo. He rewinds to the time he fell in love with the game – in the mid-1990s – and gives us a terrific overview of his relationship with cricket over the years. As a fan, a full-time cricket journalist, an observer from a distance, as well as someone who dips into the game to take in its pleasures. Participants: Samanth Subramanian ( @samanth_s, http://samanth.in ) Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@ sidvee ) Related: The Confidence Man ; India's Lavish Farewell to Sachin Tendulkar ; Unknown Cricketers ; 'You little beauty' (81allout podcast); Fly Lara Fly ; The Star We Don't Know ; 'Every generation needs its writers to tell its stories' - Sharda Ugra; From Bedi to Kohli: a cricket writer's journey - Vijay Lokapally podcast; The things we remember, the things we forget - 81allout podcast Books discussed: Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast ; This Divided Island: Life, Death, and the Sri Lankan War ; A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of JBS Haldane ; Picador Book of Cricket ; The Art of Cricket ; Pundits from Pakistan ; Chinaman - a novel ; A Corner of a Foreign Field ; War Minus the Shooting ; Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer