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Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai is at the University of Johannesburg. His latest book is Of Fathers, Sons and Timeless Tests: Wicket Tales from Kingsmead.

Email: [email protected]

OPINIONISTA

The lingering politics of racial identity - how race is leveraged as a life strategy in the 21st century

by: Ashwin Desai

OPINIONISTA

The return to respectability of the honourable profession of bank robbing

by: Ashwin Desai

Of Fathers, Sons and Timeless Tests: Wicket Tales from Kingsmead

South Africa, Sport

Of Fathers, Sons and Timeless Tests: Wicket Tales from Kingsmead

by: Ashwin Desai

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Beautiful sorrow: The tail end of a new innings for South Africa and its dogged survivors

by: Ashwin Desai

OPINIONISTA

King Richards the Fourth? The Kingsmead coronation that never came

by: Ashwin Desai

OPINIONISTA

'More than victory or defeat' — A Kingsmead cricket tale without beginning or end

by: Ashwin Desai

OPINIONISTA

‘Wounded attachments’ — a centenary of Test cricket at Kingsmead and the death of an unsung maestro

by: Ashwin Desai

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Slouching towards Varanasi to be reborn — on a journey to India, I find my roots in Durban

by: Ashwin Desai

OPINIONISTA

The cruel optimism of Rama’s poser — how our mighty hopes have fallen

by: Ashwin Desai

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Rishi Sunak has khanucked all our smug political assumptions about ‘racist’, ‘imperialist’ Britain

by: Ashwin Desai

OPINIONISTA

Memorialising Indian indentured labour: A monumental African tale that keeps wagging

by: Ashwin Desai

OPINIONISTA

Ways of (not) seeing: Cricket and its discontents

by: Ashwin Desai