BCCI's Dubai Office and the Saffronisation of Cricket with Sushant Singh

We had a freewheeling chat with Sushant Singh about Bangladesh’s omission from the T20 World Cup, ICC as the BCCI’s Dubai office, Hindutva and its reflections on how Indian cricket functions, sport’s culpability at letting oligarchs trample through the field, and lots of cricket memories.Sushant Singh is a journalist, author, and lecturer in South Asian Studies at Yale University. He is the Consulting Editor at The Caravan, a columnist with The Telegraph and The Morning Context, and his work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, and The New Yorker. Cricket fans have more recently seen him on videos of The Caravan and read his writing on Cricket Et Al.His piece on Mustafizur Rahman's exit from the IPL hereYou can follow him on TwitterSushant's RecommendationsFree by Leah Ypi Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic HistoryBook by Ornit Shani and Rohit DeOsman Samiuddin's seminal piece - The Haal of PakistanMohammed Hanif’s vlogs on BBC - HereLinks to Books, Pieces discussed on the PodEhsan Mani's moving tribute to IS BindraPundits from Pakistan (yes, again)War Minus The Shooting (yes, again)H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal PurohitCorner of a Foreign Field by Ramachandra GuhaValkyrie