Welcome to Episode 101 of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. Joining us on the podcast is N Jagannath Das. Born in a family of journalists, Sir was inspired by his father late NR Swami, who was correspondent of The Statesman, The Hindu and PTI from 30s to late 70s. His other three brothers (NVR Swami, N Pattabhi and late N Ramdas) followed in their father's footsteps. Sir started his career in Newstime in 1984 in Hyderabad before he joined Indian Express in 1986 and was in this paper till 2016. His last paper was Telangana Today where he worked as Deputy Editor heading sports desk. During his long career, he covered Test matches and the 2011 World Cup. He was part of the New Indian Express team that covered the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Apart from that be gave a lot of importance to local matches. For him, the biggest satisfaction was to write on Sania Mirza, VVS Laxman, PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal when they were very young. They went on become super stars of Indian sports. He retired at the age of 62 on November 30 as Deputy Editor of Telangana Today. It was an amazing conversation where a lot of aspects about his career and everything cricket was discussed, so don't miss out. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners ?