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Ramachandra GuhaIndian Express |
An Indian I greatly admire is the social worker and pioneer of the Chipko movement, Chandi Prasad Bhatt. My first meeting with him, when I was in my...
On March 1, the online edition of The Hindu carried a report by Jagriti Chandra with this headline: “Jamnagar airport gets international status for...
Since 2019, when Narendra Modi and his party were returned to power with a larger majority, the conflict between the Union government and the states...
The last assembly elections in Karnataka were held in May 2023. For several months prior to the polls, the headlines in the local newspapers were...
Trawling through one of Bangalore’s wonderful second-hand bookstores, I came across a novel called When I Lived in Modern Times. I had not heard of...
The Indian Socialist tradition is now moribund, but there was a time when it had a profound and mostly salutary influence on politics and society. Yet...
Like most of my readers, I begin the day by reading the newspapers, in my case online and then in print. On Sunday, January 7, the first paper I read...
Of all the Indian states I know, Kerala has the most active civil society organisations that flourish independently of governments and political...
“If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country.” – BR Ambedkar In a recent talk in Bengaluru,...
In recent years, a stream of books and articles has appeared seeking to analyse the theory and practice of Hindutva. They have sought to alternatively...
The climate crisis has brought human ill-treatment of nature forcibly to our attention though, of course, India’s environmental problems are by no...
The news cycle this past fortnight has been dominated by two things: the matches in the cricket World Cup and the savage bombing by Israel of Gaza,...
Over the last four decades, I have taken part in countless academic seminars and literary festivals. The most recent took place last month, and was...