Boria Majumdar
Boria Majumdar is an Indian sports journalist, academician and author.
Majumdar was born on 8 March 1976 at Kolkata. He completed his schooling from The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata. He completed BA & MA in history from University of Calcutta. He was awarded DPhil in History from University of Oxford in 2004 where he was Rhodes scholar.
He co-authored Playing It My Way, the autobiography of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar along with Sachin.
In 2018 his second book, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians: The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond, was published by Simon & Schuster.
In 2019 he is senior research fellow in the School of Sport and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire. Previously he has worked as distinguished visiting fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne and, since 2003, as visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago.
Majumdar is married to Sharmistha Gupta.
