The Modi Government’s War On The Intellect, The Telegraph
A term greatly beloved of the Modi Government is ‘surgical strike’. It was first invoked in September 2016, after a cross-border raid undertaken by the Indian Army on camps in Pakistan. In November of the same year, the Prime Minister’s sudden, catalysmic, withdrawal of the Rs 1000 and Rs 500 currrency notes was also termed a ‘surgical strike’ (against black [...]
Jallianwala Bagh In Memory And History, The Telegraph
On 13th April 1919—exactly a hundred years ago—a British Brigadier-General named Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire on a crowd gathered in a place called Jallianwala Bagh, not far from the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Close to five hundred people were killed in the firing. Folklore has magnified the figure to a thousand, and more. But a few hundred [...]
In Praise Of the Dalai Lama, The Telegraph
In the last week of March 1959—exactly sixty years ago—the Dalai Lama fled to India, after a rebellion by his fellow Tibetans had been brutally crushed by the Chinese military. He entered what is now Arunachal Pradesh, and was then known as the North East Frontier Agency. He was riding a yak, and suffering from acute dysentery. The Indian officials [...]
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- How Much Should a Person Consume? – Environmentalism in India and the United StatesRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T22:01:53+00:00
- A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British SportRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T19:28:06+00:00
- The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating this Fissured Land & Ecology and EquityRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T22:23:41+00:00
- Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals and IndiaRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T20:32:25+00:00
- Ecology and Equity : The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India (Note Series; 223)Ramachandra Guha2019-02-17T22:15:35+00:00
Drawing on writings of the past decade-and-a-half, this website of Ramachandra Guha’s writings will be continuously updated to include his columns as they appear. Through these rich and varied essays, Guha seeks to capture the modern history of what he terms the ‘most interesting country in the world’.