India Against Gandhi, Financial Times, Weekend
Born in 1958, a decade after Gandhi’s death, I grew up in an atmosphere of veneration towards the Mahatma. One of my great uncles helped edit Gandhi’s Collected Works; another founded a pioneering initiative in community health inspired by Gandhi. These familial influences were consolidated and deepened by the public culture of the time. Gandhi was the Father of the [...]
Attenborough Revisited, The Telegraph
This week marks the fortieth anniversary of the release of Richard Attenborough’s epic film Gandhi. Attenborough’s papers are located in an archive an hour’s train ride from London. Visiting them recently, I found several files of reviews of the most significant (some would say only worthwhile) film that the director made. They included an assessment in The Telegraph, written by [...]
In Praise of Ian Jack, The Telegraph
In the course of my life, I have met many remarkable men, who have distinguished themselves as scholars, writers, artists, sportsmen, scientists, entrepreneurs, politicians, and activists. These men, almost without exception, have had a high sense of self-regard. As the Hindustani expression goes, ‘apne ko bahut samajhte hain’. Some are crudely boastful about their achievements; others practise one or other [...]
- India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest DemocracyRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T18:36:51+05:30
- How Much Should a Person Consume? – Environmentalism in India and the United StatesRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T22:01:53+05:30
- A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British SportRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T19:28:06+05:30
- The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating this Fissured Land & Ecology and EquityRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T22:23:41+05:30
- Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals and IndiaRamachandra Guha2019-02-17T20:32:25+05:30
- Ecology and Equity : The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India (Note Series; 223)Ramachandra Guha2019-02-17T22:15:35+05:30
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’.