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Club won\\'t play ball.
(From Indian Express)
The irony is rich. Ramachandra Guha, one of India's leading cricket writers, visits Bombay Gymkhana for a photo session to promote his latest book on cricket; the club, one of the country's oldest institutions associated with the sport and with a documented history of race and class discrimination, shoos him off the premises. Guha's A Corner of a Foreign Field focuses on a Dalit cricketer of pre-independent India, Palwankar Baloo. Guha writes he excelled in tournaments staged at venues that varied from the Bombay Gym to Yorkshire and Surrey. And that, back then, during a quadrangular tournament which featured Parsi, Hindu, Muslim and British teams, the Bombay Gym put up a notice asking ...
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