Next generation of journalists inspired by top authors at Times LitFest

The BAJMC Semester IV students of Times School of Media were taken on a field trip to Times Lit Fest held at Siri Fort Auditorium on February 11.

The students spent a full day at Siri Fort Auditorium in Delhi listening to authors talk about their latest books.

Here’s a report by Nikita Singh, a BAJMC Sem IV student, on the session of Mr Pradeep Magazine, a well-known Sports Journalist and Author, who has written two books on cricket, Not Quite Cricket and Not Just Cricket: A Reporter’s Journey through Modern India.

The Session began with the author talking about radio commentaries and the romance they created in the minds of cricket lovers. “At that time people didn’t have television sets and radio commentary was the only way to know what was happening in a match. People also didn’t know what a cover drive looked like so they had to depend entirely on the way radio commentators described the ups and downs of a match,” Magazine said.

Magazine praised the three lords of Indian Cricket - Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, and Sachin Tendulkar. “They are achievers because they made their name by being selected into the Indian eleven and let their bats talk,” he said.


Nikita Singh, Sankalp Gupta and Yash Jaiswal with Sports Journalist Pradeep Magazine.

When asked to give advice to budding sports journalists, Magazine said “People generally think that after becoming a sports journalist they will get to meet cricketers, but the reality is different. You need to have good writing skills, patience, and good vocabulary and understand the language of cricket. Only then you can be a good sports journalist.”

The Session was full of learning for the students.