Boria Majumdar

Some Lesser Known Facts About Boria Majumdar

• Boria Majumdar is an Indian sports journalist, academician and author. He has completed his formal education in the field of History. He was brought into the limelight, for daunting Indian wicket-keeper, Wriddhiman Saha, for not entertaining his requests and calls for an interview.

• After completing his post-graduation, in 1999, in the field of History, Boria Majumdar was awarded a scholarship under the Rhodes scholarship programme, under the programme, he completed his Doctorate of Philosophy (DPhil) in Social History of Indian Cricket in October 2000.

• Boria Majumdar completed his doctorate in 2004, and his thesis titled, Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket, was nominated for publication in the Oxford monographs series.

• In 2004, his thesis, Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket, was also published in India.

• In 2014, Boria Majumdar co-authored Sachin’s autobiography titled, Playing It My Way. The book’s name has been registered with the Limca Book of Records for selling the most number of copies on the first day of its release.

  

• In 2018, he authored and published his second book titled, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians: The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond.

  

• Throughout his career as a sports journalist, Boria Majumdar has interviewed several renowned sports players such as Kapil Dev, Jhulan Goswami, Saurav Ganguly, Sunil Gavaskar, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
  

  

  

  

  

• Boria Majumdar has also worked as a visiting faculty for La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Since 2003, Boria Majumdar has been working as a lecturer at the University of Chicago.

• In 2019, Boria Majumdar was appointed as a senior fellow researcher in the School of Sport and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire.

• In 2019, he hosted the South Asian Diaspora Convention in Singapore. At the convention, he interviewed renowned cricketers like Rahul Dravid and Harbhajan Singh.

  

• In 2020, Boria Majumdar hosted a series titled, Inspiration, which was aired on the news channel, India Today. In the series, he interviewed several famous sports players such as Hardik Pandya, Sachin Tendulkar, Sania Mirza and Virat Kohli.
  

  

  

  

  

• In 2021, Boria Majumdar covered the Tokyo Olympics 2020 from Japan.

  

• In April 2020, he published his third book titled, 1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness.

  

• Boria Majumdar also hosts a talk show titled, Boria Speaks.

• In 2020, Boria Majumdar published another book titled, Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympic Games.

  

• In 2020, Boria interviewed the Paralympian, Deepa Malik, during Jaipur Literature Fest.

  

• In 2021, Boria Majumdar founded Cristorian Sports.

• From November 2021 to December 2021, Boria Majumdar worked as a Consultant with Sports4life.

• In 2021, he hosted a show titled, Babumoshai. The show was aired on India Today. In the show, the participants discussed a wide variety of topics while having their supper.

  

• Boria Majumdar is a staunch advocate of practising Yoga. He has also taught Yoga to his daughter, Aisha.

  

• Boria Majumdar is also a pet lover. He has a pet dog named Kalu.

  

• As a sports journalist, he often writes about sports for several Bengali newspapers. Owing to the vast knowledge of cricket, that he possesses, Boria Majumdar has been invited for cricket commentary as well.

  

• In December 2021, Boria Majumdar founded RevSportz.

• In 2022, he was featured on the Bengali segment titled, Ektu Khawa Ektu Khela. The segment focuses on food and sports.

• Boria Majumdar also enjoys cooking sometimes.