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Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

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Before joining the opinion desk at The National, Chitrabhanu worked in the paper's sports section as a cricket and tennis writer, editor and podcaster. Prior to that, he was with Mid Day and The Indian Express newspapers. Once passionate about listening to music, hiking, playing gully cricket and biking along the beach, he now spends most of his spare time being overwhelmed by fatherhood.
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