Noted cricket scribe Raju Bharatan dies

February 07, 2020 15:05

Raju Bharatan -- the legendary writer on Hindi film music and cricket -- sadly passed into the ages today. Though its then editor Khushwant Singh cornered the glory, it was Mr Bharatan's stewardship of a special cricket issue of the Illustrated Weekly Of India that sold over 400,000 copies -- then and now, a record for an Indian magazine. Mr Bharatan was knowledgeable and prolific, and wrote with felicity on both cricket and Hindi film music for over 65 years. We were honoured to publish some of his features and his interviews, links to which you can find below.

First up, the sports stories he wrote for Rediff.com.

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