Ramachandra Guha was recently named as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. He is the author of India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy.
Gandhian nationalism, enshrined in the Constitution, is based on ideals of equality and diversity. As a new...
Ramachandra Guha, Public Intellectual of the Year
Few, including sitting MP Narendra Modi perhaps, know of the Mahatma’s enduring relationship with the city
Khushwant Singh has just entered his 100th year. Time to recall an essay detailing why he once extolled...
Historian Ramachandra Guha’s new book explores the critical formative years of Gandhi’s political life,...
Tracking that species of Hindutvawadi, obsessively trolling the Net, looking for slights to the faith
We are deeply saddened at the indiscriminate killing of 18 adivasis in Kottaguda Panchayat of Bijapur...
'We condemn the attack by the Maoists ...in which they killed two security guards and abducted the Sukma...
Does the movement provide us a great opportunity for national regeneration? Could it grow by involving...
'Appeal to both the Maoists and the government to initiate peace talks on the basis of justice and...
Myriad corrosive agents—even the Indian State—are eating into the idea of India. This isn’t the...
The once venerable Nehru Memorial Library is in peril
'Those that adopt violent means to express themselves cannot and should not be condoned in any manner...
More deprived and dispossessed than the Dalits - or Muslims - the Adivasis remain not just marginal but...
In six decades of ‘progress’ India hasn’t realised our founders’ vision of social democracy
When India was closest to being a non-functioning anarchy
How the polity got fractured and how we can aid the healing process
Was this the worst year experienced by India (and Indians) since the country was founded? Our annus...