Mukul Kesavan (born 9 April 1957)[1][better source needed] is an Indian historian, novelist and political and social essayist. He was schooled at St. Xaviers' School in Delhi and then went on to study history at St. Stephen's College, and at theUniversity of Delhi. He later attendedTrinity Hall, University of Cambridge on an Inlaks scholarship, where he received anMLitt degree.
His first book, a novel titledLooking Through Glass (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994) received international critical acclaim.[2] In 2001 he wrote a political tract titledSecular Common Sense which was published by Penguin India. He teaches social history atJamia Millia Islamia in Delhi.
Kesavan writes frequently about the game of cricket. His book on cricket,Men in White, was published by Penguin India in 2007.[3] He also wrote a blog by the same name on ESPNcricinfo.
Kesavan is also the author ofThe Ugliness of the Indian Male and Other Propositions, published by Black Kite in 2008.[4] The book is a collection of essays on a wide variety of themes ranging from Indian films to Indian men to travel writing to political commentary. His latest book, titledHomeless on Google Earth (2013),[5] published by Permanent Black, is a collection of several previous columns and opinion essays alongside some previously unpublished essays.
Kesavan is the co-editor ofCivil Lines, a widely respected journal of Indian writing in English. In 2014,The New Republic included hisHomeless on Google Earth in its list of the year's best books, describing Kesavan as "[a] novelist and essayist, a historian and poet, a social commentator and public intellectual, [who] commands an enviable following in the Anglophone world beyond America and Britain".[6]
His columns have appeared inThe Telegraph[1],ESPNcricinfo,Outlook Magazine,[7] Mint and several other periodicals and journals.
His mother, Dr. Chandrakanta Narain, was Punjabi, born in Lahore and brought up in Delhi.[8] His fatherB. S. Kesavan, a writer, was also the highly regarded curator of the National Library in Calcutta.
He lives in New Delhi with his wife, the UNDP lawyer Arundhati Das and their two children.
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