N. S. Ramaswami

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1908 – 1987

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Who was N. S. Ramaswami?

Nallathagudi Srinivasa Ramaswami was an Indian sports journalist who worked for four decades with The Hindu, Mail and Indian Express, and became an assistant editor at all three newspapers. He wrote four books on cricketWinter of Content, Indian Cricket, Indian Willow and From Porbandar to Wadekar — but was by no measure yoked to that field: well-versed in history, social commentary and temple architecture, he indited tomes on each.

Ramaswami often wrote under the pseudonyms "Cardusian" and "New Ebor", the former in honour of Neville Cardus, that doyen of cricket literature, and the latter Alfred Pullin, Victorian-Edwardian cricket correspondent for the Yorkshire Post, whose pseudonym was "Old Ebor". He most popularly known, however, by the initials NSR.

One of the most subtle and observant writers on the game, Ramaswami's work is celebrated even today. "What he lacked," wrote Suresh Menon in an otherwise laudatory piece, "was what some modern writers consider more important than style or flair — a harsh line in criticism. His writing was suggestive rather than brazen, his criticism based on larger principles rather than on passing trends."

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Born
Nov 1, 1908
India
Died
Feb 19, 1987

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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