Boria majumdar museum of natural history
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Boria Majumdar, a sports journalist, academician and author, is a senior research fellow at ‘The School of Sport and Wellbeing’ at The University of Central Lancashire.
He completed his D.Phil. on the Social History of Indian Cricket from The University of Oxford in 2004 where he was a Rhodes scholar.
He Co-Authored ‘Playing It My Way’, the autobiography of the legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, along with the man himself.
He is also the Author of ‘Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians: The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond’, published in 2018.
He has worked as a distinguished visiting fellow at ‘La Trobe University, Melbourne’ and has been a visiting lecturer at ‘The University of Chicago’ since 2003.
He is a senior research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire and Adjunct Professor, School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies.
He was named the ‘Young Global Leader’ at the World Economic Forum in 2009.
An expert with a wealth
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Fanattic Sports Museum
Located inside the Ecospace Business Park, Kolkata and spread across 3700 square feet, Fanattic Sports Museum is India’s first sports museum designed in place of a non-operational food court. The project brief called for creating a unique, one-of-a-kind sports museum which would develop a conscious sports community. The challenge was to complete the research and commission the project within a time span of two months using the least amount of capital resource and design the building within a 20 acre campus as per the Gold Rating requirements of LEED. Apart from presenting the city with a sports museum, the intent was also to inspire the corporate crowd on campus to participate in a healthy dialogue on sports.
The idea was to showcase the personal collections and memorabilia collected for over 29 years by the renowned sports journalist Boria Majumdar. At present the museum houses 133 exhibits, 60 graphic boards, 10 life-size cut-outs of sportsme
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Boria Majumdar
Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes Scholar, completed his B.A. in History from Presidency College, Calcutta University in the year 1997. In 1999 he did his M.A. in Modern History from the same university and secured first position in the examination with record marks. He was awarded the Rhodes scholarship in 1999-2000 and went to St John’s College, Oxford University to do a D.Phil. on the Social History of Indian Cricket in October 2000. He completed his doctorate in March 2004 and the thesis was subsequently nominated for publication in the Oxford monographs series. It was published in India bygd Penguin-Viking as the much acclaimed Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket in December 2004. There after Dr. Majumdar went on to teach at the Universities of Chicago, Toronto and La Trobe where he was first distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2005. He was also the first Indian to be awarded a fellowship to work at the International Olympic museum archives in La