'None of us knew anything about the Internet when Rediff began': interview with the journalist Prem Panicker
Click here to support 81allout on Ko-Fi Our special guest this week is Prem Panicker, a veteran journalist who has been writing on cricket for over 25 years. Prem was one of the founding journalists at Rediff.com and a pioneer with regard to online commentary and internet radio. Talking Points: Falling in love with cricket in the late 1960s and '70s The granular detail with which one remembers games from one's childhood Listening to the radio and enacting the action based on the commentary The arrival of television to India and the magic it brought forth Entering the world of journalism The brave new world of the Internet - and the leap of faith it entailed Figuring out the internet while writing on cricket during the 1996 World Cup How Indian cricketers embraced the new reality of online coverage The BCCI's contradictory stance with respect to online portals like Rediff JY Lele and his famous quote that predicted India would lose 3-0 in Australia The match-fixing saga and falling out of love with cricket The lure of blogging and the flexibility it offered Twitter as a second-screen in the cricket viewing experience Participants: Prem Panicker (@prempanicker) Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee) Related: Prem Panicker's blog - Smoke Signals Prem Panicker's column archive - Rediff.com The Prem Panicker files - The Seen and the Unseen podcast with Amit Varma Money in cricket - Prem Panicker and Gideon Haigh on The Seen and the Unseen podcast with Amit Varma Prem Panicker interview from 2011 - Couch Talks Lele unplugged - Faisal Shariff - Rediff.com The day naivety, not football itself, died - Jonathan Wilson on Brazil's loss to Italy in 1982 - The Guardian Radio Frequency - Srikanth Natarajan - 81allout.com * Lead image from here.