would rather live quietly in a house in the hills with the wife and a team of dogs, teaching them the Noble Sport. As it is, he plies his trade as a sports journalist, first in Calcutta, then Delhi and now in Bangalore, where he is Senior Editor with Wisden India. He has dabbled in pretty much every medium journalism has to offer: the web, newspapers, radio, magazines, even academic journals and, for the seven years prior to his present position, news television. Along the way, he has struck up a tricky relationship with boxing. He trained a little once upon a time but was too chicken to actually fight a bout, while as a journalist he has followed the sport closely from Hisar and Howrah to Beijing and Bhiwani. "Can't be a boxer?" Well, you can write about it!