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Our special guest this week is Prem Panicker, a veteran journalist who has been writing on cricket for over 25 years. Prem was one of the founding journalists at Rediff.com and a pioneer with regard to online commentary and internet radio.
Talking Points:
- Falling in love with cricket in the late 1960s and '70s
- The granular detail with which one remembers games from one's childhood
- Listening to the radio and enacting the action based on the commentary
- The arrival of television to India and the magic it brought forth
- Entering the world of journalism
- The brave new world of the Internet - and the leap of faith it entailed
- Figuring out the internet while writing on cricket during the 1996 World Cup
- How Indian cricketers embraced the new reality of online coverage
- The BCCI's contradictory stance with respect to online portals like Rediff
- JY Lele and his famous quote that predicted India would lose 3-0 in Australia
- The match-fixing saga and falling out of love with cricket
- The lure of blogging and the flexibility it offered
- Twitter as a second-screen in the cricket viewing experience
Participants:
Prem Panicker (@prempanicker)
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Related:
Prem Panicker's blog - Smoke Signals
Prem Panicker's column archive - Rediff.com
The Prem Panicker files - The Seen and the Unseen podcast with Amit Varma
Money in cricket - Prem Panicker and Gideon Haigh on The Seen and the Unseen podcast with Amit Varma
Prem Panicker interview from 2011 - Couch Talks
Lele unplugged - Faisal Shariff - Rediff.com
The day naivety, not football itself, died - Jonathan Wilson on Brazil's loss to Italy in 1982 - The Guardian
Radio Frequency - Srikanth Natarajan - 81allout.com
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