81 All Out

Click here to support 81allout on Ko-Fi (We will be donating all your contributions till the end of June towards Covid relief in India. We plan to match your contributions upto $800) Our special guest this week is Jai Galagali, a cricket fan who runs a YouTube channel focused on Indian cricket history. Jai talks about falling in love with the game in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and his quest to seek out clips from the Films Division of India. "How do we remember so much from some phase of our life and so little from many others?" Jai explores this question through the conversation. Talking Points: Discovering the inner child and love for cricket Seeing Chandra, Vishy, Prasanna and so many larger-than-life figures for the first time Watching cricket highlights in the cinema theaters in the 1970s Viswanath and the poetic essence of cricket The history of the Films Division and documenting a young nation's evolving cultural, political and social landscape Zul Vellani - the master of the unive