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Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympic Games

 
Nalin Mehta (Author) Boria Majumdar (Author)
Synopsis

As India gears up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the country will focus once again on the moments of glory we have had on the largest sports arena in the world, featuring such stalwarts as Abhinav Bindra, Mary Kom and PV Sindhu. But it will also be time to ask again the question we ask ourselves every four years: why does a country of a billion plus have so little to show for itself at the Olympics? Dreams of a Billion gives the reader an inside view of what goes on backstage in the Indian Olympics world, alongside a quick history of how India has fared at the Olympics over the past century, and a look at how the Indian Olympics world has changed in the last decade. Which brings us to the question: How good is India's preparation for Tokyo 2020? Can Tokyo be the gamechanger Indian sport wants it to be and hopes it will be?

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About the authors

Nalin Mehta

Nalin Mehta, a Commonwealth scholar, is founding Joint Editor of the international journal South Asian History and Culture, and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He is the author of the award-winning India on Television (Asian Publishing Award 2009) and has co-authored the critically acclaimed Olympics: The India Story. His edited books include Television in India and The Changing Face of Cricket. A weekly columnist for Mumbai Mirror, he has over ten years of experience as a journalist, working with several television networks including NDTV, Zee News, and Times Now.

Boria Majumdar

Boria Majumdar is a Rhodes Scholar, and currently Deputy Director of the International Research Centre for Sort, Socialisation and Society, De Montfort University, Bedofrd. A visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago and a fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2004), he has completed his doctorate on the social History of Indian Cricket at St. Johns College, Oxford. He is also Deputy Executive Academic Editor of the International Journal of the History of sport (Routledge), and General Editor of the first-ever sports series in Indian publishing, Sport in South Asia, started by YODA PRESS.

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Bibliographic information

Title Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympic Games
Format Softcover
Date published: 13.03.2020
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Harper Sport
Language: English
isbn 9789353576004
length 352p.
Subjects Sports