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'Every generation needs its writers to tell its stories' - interview with Sharda Ugra
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 02:15:02
Publish Date: 2020-04-08 03:39:50
Description:

In this special episode, we chat with veteran sports writer Sharda Ugra.

From interviewing star cricketers as a college student... to blazing a trail as a sports journalist in the early '90s... to writing on a variety of sports for The Hindu... to being the chief sports writer at India Today... to presently working as a senior editor at ESPNcricinfo... Sharda has been an inspiration for a number of sports writers around the world.

We chat with Sharda about her illustrious career – and are riveted by her range of experiences as well as her inexhaustible bank of anecdotes.

Talking Points:

  • The magazines that hooked her on to sports
  • The interviews she and her college buddies did with the stars of the 1980s
  • Memories of Imran Khan
  • Landing her first job
  • Finding Sachin Tendulkar's number
  • Covering sailing 
  • Watching Kenya's biggest cricketing moment
  • The match-fixing shock
  • The fall of Hansie Cronje
  • The Azharuddin she interviewed
  • Authoring a book with John Wright
  • The Ganguly era
  • Player access and the importance of stories
  • Women's cricket - past, present and future
  • And much, much more

Participants:

Sharda Ugra

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

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