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How Ramachandra Guha Became an Essayist

26.02.2025 10

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Ramachandra Guha: Can India forge its own environmentally responsible path to economic growth?

Ramachandra Guha: Can India forge its own environmentally responsible path to economic growth?
23.02.2025 20

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Ramachandra Guha: In Lahore’s banishment of its pluralistic past lies a sharp warning for India

Ramachandra Guha: In Lahore’s banishment of its pluralistic past lies a sharp warning for India
09.02.2025 10

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Ramachandra Guha: 75 years later, Ambedkar’s warnings about potential pitfalls have come true

26.01.2025 40

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Ramachandra Guha: Manmohan Singh helped unshackle India’s economy – but also enabled Modi’s rise

12.01.2025 20

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Ramachandra Guha: ‘Baba’ Allauddin Khan’s musical family has brought me joy for 50 years

The first time I knew myself to be in the presence of greatness was while sitting under a shamiana in New Delhi’s Modern School sometime in the...

29.12.2024 4

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Ramachandra Guha: Remembering Rajmohan Gandhi’s warning about the ‘new Hindu separatism’

I have admired the historian and biographer, Rajmohan Gandhi, for many years, both for his books and for his abiding commitment to democracy and...

15.12.2024 9

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Ramachandra Guha: 120 years later, Gandhi’s Phoenix Farm still has the power to move visitors

In November 1904, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi bought a large farm 14 miles (22.5 km) from the port of Durban in South Africa. Prior to this...

17.11.2024 3

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Ramachandra Guha: The sweet, sublime music of Kumar Gandharva is a gift that keeps giving

Among the few perils of being a professional bullshitter – normally a pleasurable and even profitable vocation – are the presents that one receives...

20.10.2024 3

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Ramachandra Guha: Indians must hold our government to account for aiding Israel’s murderous Gaza war

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a brutal attack on the citizens of Israel. More than 1,100 people were killed, of which three-fourths were...

06.10.2024 20

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Ramachandra Guha: What the apparent defeat of Gandhi’s pursuit of religious pluralism could teach us

One of the great challenges of the modern world is how to get people of different faiths to live peaceably together. The creation of nation-states...

22.09.2024 10

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Ramachandra Guha: On André Béteille’s 90th birthday, a tribute to the wisest man in India

The Indian scholar I most admire, Professor André Béteille, celebrates his ninetieth birthday on September 15. Born and raised in Bengal, he moved...

08.09.2024 30

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Ramachandra Guha: How China imposed a vision of the past on citizens, aiming to control the future

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” runs one of the most famous lines in George Orwell’s...

11.08.2024 30

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Ramachandra Guha: It wasn’t just Biden. In every country, old men refuse to quit when they should

The United States is the country I know best apart from my own. I first visited it 38 years ago and have been back many times since. My last visit...

28.07.2024 5

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