Boria Majumdar

Boria Majumdar is an Indian sports journalist, academician and author. Majumdar was born on 8 March 1976 at Kolkata. He completed his schooling from The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata. He completed his B.A. in History from Presidency College, University of Calcutta in the year 1997. In 1999 he did his M.A. in Modern History from the same university. He was awarded the Rhodes scholar in 1999-2000 and went to St John’s College, University of Oxford to do a DPhil on the Social History of Indian Cricket in October 2000. [1][2] He completed his doctorate in March 2004 and the thesis was subsequently nominated for publication in the Oxford monographs series. It was published in India by Penguin-Viking as the much acclaimed Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket in December 2004.