Third Man: Reflections from A Life in Cricket

V Ramnarayan, Editor-in-Chief, Sruti, India's foremost magazine on the performing arts, has a number of works to his credit, including Mosquitos and Jolly Rovers, the story of Tamil Nadu Cricket, named in Wisden Asia’s top ten books on Indian cricket, a biography of advertising giant RK Swamy, Star Crossed, his English translation of Ashokamitran's Tamil novel Karaintha Nizhalgal, which was shortlisted for a national award, a biography of APJ Abdul Kalam for children, and I'm Vidya, an English translation of the life of a transgender. He has edited scores of books, both fiction and non-fiction-including MS & Radha, a biography of MS Subbulakshmi by Gowri Ramnarayan-and is the translator of Lalitha Ram's biography of GNB in Tamil, which Sruti is serializing. He is the recipient of the Media Excellence Award 2009 of International Foundation for Fine Arts presented by Music Forum of India, Mumbai. Ramnarayan is also a former cricketer at the Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Cup levels.