Courage, Conviction, Controversy and Cricket

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COURAGE, CONVICTION, CONTROVERSY AND CRICKET 6 PM, Tuesday, Sep 15, 2020

Mr Vedam Jaishankar Journalist, Author, Speaker & Entrepreneur MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION Fountainhead of Excellence

Programme 6.00 pm Welcome address

Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

Mr Vedam Jaishankar E-Launch of the book and Journalist, Author, Speaker & Address by the Entrepreneur Author

Panel Discussion

Mr V Ramnarayan Former Cricketer and Journalist Mr V V Kumar * Former Indian Test Cricketer and Coach

Moderator

Mr Prakash Belawadi Indian Media Personality

Q & A Session

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PROFILE - SPEAKER

Mr Vedam Jaishankar Vedam Jaishankar is an experienced cricket correspondent with a career spanning two decades during which he has travelled extensively and covered cricketing in six continents across the globe. Cricket has been an abiding passion with him and he has played school college and club cricket with a number of well known cricketers. He coached for a few years in the Brijesh Patel Cricket Academy before the demands of journalism made him give up coaching. After a stint with the Deccan Herald he moved to The Indian Express where he was the principal cricket correspondent for many years. He has occasionally done Television and Radio commentary of the game. Jaishankar was the office bearer of the Sports Writers Association of Bangalore and its parent body Sports Journalist Federation of India. He received the for excellence in Sports Journalism from the Karnataka State Government and the for outstanding contribution to Journalism. He also served in the Board of Control for Cricket in India's Accreditation Committee in two World Cup tournaments.

Jaishankar is the founder managing editor of Bangalore Bias, an English language afternoon paper in Bangalore[1] after a long stint with The New Indian Express as its main cricket writer. He authored the best-seller book, Rahul Dravid, a Biography[2] and Casting A Spell, The Story of a Cricket. The Dravid biography was also officially translated into three languages. A veteran of several World Cups, he last covered the 2003 edition in South Africa, for Vijay Times that he helped launch. Jaishankar writes for SPIN, a British cricket magazine besides a number of Indian publications.

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Mr V Ramnarayan V Ramnarayan is an old fashioned all rounder. At 72, he is still active in a number of fields as a teacher, columnist, blogger and author, his work including articles, interviews, profiles, and books he has authored, co-authored, translated or edited. Cricket, music, biographies and business history are part of his oeuvre.

Teaching the elective Covering Cricket, as adjunct faculty at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, he is now wrestling with the challenge of online classes posed by the pandemic and the lockdown. In October 2018, he retired from the twin positions of Advisor- Corporate Communications to The Sanmar Group and Editor-in-Chief, Sruti, a performing arts monthly supported by the group.

A first class cricketer of the 1970s, Ramnarayan represented Presidency College, Madras University, Hyderabad and South Zone, in such major tournaments as the Rohinton Baria, Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. He also played for the Rest of India vs. Bombay, the Ranji Trophy champion, in the Irani Cup of 1976-77. He was named among India’s Test probables for a couple of seasons. At a time when India had a problem of plenty in the spin department, he was regarded as one of the leading off spinners in the country.

Over the last three decades, Ram has been a contributor to The Hindu, Sportstar, Businessline, the Sunday Express, Times of India, Economic Times, Deccan Chronicle, Madras Musings, Vidura, ESPN Cricinfo, The Cricket Monthly, Wisden India, Wisden India Almanack, First Post, DNA, Chennai Online and Asiaville News.

His book projects include Mosquitos and Other Jolly Rovers: the Story of Tamil Nadu Cricket The Spirit of Chepauk (with S Muthiah) Cricket for the Love of It: Jolly Rovers CC and the Sanmar Family Third Man: Recollections from a Life in Cricket RK Swamy: a Life in Advertising MS and Radha and Song of Surrender (two books by Gowri Ramnarayan and others, edited by him) GNB: Prince of Music (translated from Tamil) Star Crossed (a translation of Ashokamitran’s Tamil novel) and Carnatic Music: A South Indian Classical Art—A Pictorial Guide to the Intelligent Music Lover.

Mr V V Kumar * Viswanathan Vaman Kumar ((born 26 June 1935, Chennai) is a former Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1961. On his debut he took five wickets in the first innings against Pakistan in Delhi in 1961.Unfortunately, he played only one more Test match, versus Ted Dexter’s England team at the Brabourne Stadium, Bombay, before being discarded forever.

Few batsmen in domestic cricket mastered Kumar, the master leg spinner. He had more than 400 Ranji Trophy wickets and 599 first class scalps in all in his long career. He took part in two hard-fought Ranji Trophy finals against Bombay in 196768 and 1972-73, both of which Madras lost despite Kumar's splendid bowling. Despite his consistent successes, his return to Test cricket was blocked by the emergence of the unorthodox but match-winning leg spinner B.S. Chandrasekhar.

After his playing days, Kumar has distinguished himself as a coach, first heading the MAC Spin Academy at Chennai, and later helming the Chennai chapter of the National Cricket Academy of the BCCI. An acute thinker on the game, VV Kumar is a much sought after commentator on the game on a variety of platforms.

VV also had a successful career as a bank officer, retiring as a deputy general manager of State Bank of India.

Mr Prakash Belawadi Prakash Belawadi is an Indian theater, film, television and media personality, teacher, activist and journalist from Bangalore. Belawadi has participated in many seminars, conferences and festivals in India and abroad. He has been a motivational speaker at events and Tedx conferences.

Belawadi was born into a family of theatre artistes in Bangalore, in the erstwhile Mysore State (now Karnataka).

His father, Belavadi Nanjundaiah Narayan (1929–2003) popularly known as Make-up Nani, was a personality in Kannada theatre, who also appeared in films, and worked as a make-up artist alongside. His mother, Bhargavi, is a renowned film and theatre artiste. His siblings Sujata, Sudha and Pradeep, and nieces and nephews are also variously connected with theatre, music, television and cinema. He completed his elementary education at Mahila Seva Samaja, higher school education in National High School, following which he completed his pre-university course at National College, Bangalore. He obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering in 1983.

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