Rahul Bhattacharya

Rahul Bhattacharya was born in Bombay in 1979, and was part of a St. Xavier’s College team that comfortably failed to carry forward the legacy of Sunil Gavaskar and Ashok Mankad. He covered this tour for the Guardian and Wisden. Pundits from Pakistan won the 2005 Crossword Popular Book Award and was voted fourth-best cricket book of all time by the Wisden Cricketer, London, in 2010. His first novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care, won the Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. He lives in Delhi.