Gaurav Bhalla's Novel, The Curse And the Cup, Asks "Can Karmic Debt Explain South Africa's World Cup Cricket Failures?"

RESTON, Virginia, Dec. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- On an ill-fated day in 1991, Vuyisa Lingani and his son Manga, legendary left-arm spinners who were unable to play international cricket for South Africa's Proteas team due to their race, died within hours of each other in a bizarre tragedy.

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Vuyisa's wife, Mama Nonkosi, blames the white cricket establishment and places a curse on the South African cricket team to avenge their deaths. The curse has prevented the Proteas from winning a single World Cup championship since.

Only one person can reverse the curse: Themba, the sole-surviving Lingani male and heir to the left-arm spin dynasty. Will he uphold the family's tradition of hate and revenge, or will he pursue his own destiny and choose forgiveness? Will South Africa win the ICC 2015 World Cup, or will the curse continue its unbroken run?

Gaurav Bhalla's debut historical fiction novel, The Curse and the Cup, ties Mama Nonkosi's curse and the consequences of South Africa's apartheid legacy to the Proteas' failure to win the ICC World Cup.

"The Curse and the Cup is essentially a novel about the human condition," says Bhalla. "How people resolve their feelings of love, hate, envy, jealousy and anger, and how they permit or prevent their feelings from finding their way to words and actions; this is what moves me and compels me to write. I find the human condition a fertile ground for stories, because it is what makes life and people interesting and attractive, and, at the same time, frustrating and repulsive."

The Curse and the Cup is available on Amazon and Flipkart. Bhalla will be at the India International Center in Delhi on Dec. 14, 2014, and at the Bombay Gymkhana in Mumbai on Dec. 18, 2014, to discuss his novel. For access to the events, please contact [email protected]. For more information about the book and its author, visit:

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Bhalla is a business educator and consultant, having previously published Collaboration and Co-Creation: New Platforms for Marketing and Innovation. Passionate about the human condition, and about how sport reflects it, he was inspired to write The Curse and the Cup to link South Africa's racial past to its current cricketing woes.

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