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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.

Latest Work

Ashwin Desai

4 October 2024

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

By Ashwin Desai

7 min

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Ashwin Desai

24 July 2024

The return to respectability of the honourable profession of bank robbing

By Ashwin Desai

5 min

21

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

6 December 2023

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

By Ashwin Desai

6 min

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Ashwin Desai

22 June 2023

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

By Ashwin Desai

5 min

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Ashwin Desai

11 May 2023

King Richards the Fourth? The Kingsmead coronation that never came

By Ashwin Desai

6 min

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Ashwin Desai

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

By Ashwin Desai

6 min

5

Ashwin Desai

24 January 2023

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

By Ashwin Desai

6 min

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Ashwin Desai

29 November 2022

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

By Ashwin Desai

5 min

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Ashwin Desai

6 December 2022

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

By Ashwin Desai

5 min

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Ashwin Desai

3 November 2022

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

By Ashwin Desai

5 min

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Ashwin Desai

15 November 2020

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

By Ashwin Desai

6 min

2

Ashwin Desai

29 July 2020

Ways of (not) seeing: Cricket and its discontents

By Ashwin Desai

6 min

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