The Fire Burns Blue watercolor with pen and ink by Meera Rao
Last week my brother informed me that the book 'The Fire Burns Blue - A History of Women's Cricket in India' co-written by my niece Karunya Keshav and Sidhanta Patnaik is among the five books short listed for Best Non-fiction work 2019 in India! Proud Aunt suddenly remembered that she had sketched the book soon after Karunya gave it her in January during visit to India :) I had shared a photo of the sketch with her, but had somehow missed posting any of the sketches from that sketchbook on my blog.
We are all incredibly proud of Karunya and that her book is vying for honors with the likes of Ramachandra Guha, Rajmohan Gandhi, Raghuram Rajan and Shantha Gokhale! Go get your copy from Amazon and read all about the stories of extraordinary women who while competing in 'the gentleman's game' made history. And all the while as one of the players said : "We play because we love this game"
