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Vishwa-Bully, The Telegraph

Ever since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in May 2014, the BJP and the RSS have loudly proclaimed their ambition to make our country a ‘Vishwa-Guru’—Teacher to the World. With every passing month, however, they seem ever further from realizing [...]

Justice for the Kashmiris, The Telegraph

In August 2015—almost exactly ten years ago—I visited the Kashmir Valley, and spoke to a cross-section of people from different walks of life. One of them was the journalist Shujaat Bukhari. In January 2015 I had bumped into Bukhari in [...]

Modi vs Indira, The Telegraph

In early June, the senior Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh, began using the hashtag, Emergency@11, in his daily posts charging the Modi Government with various errors, mistakes and crimes. This was in anticipation of what Ramesh knew would come later in [...]

My Debt to the American University, The Telegraph

Growing up in the India of the 1970s I had ambivalent feelings towards America. I admired some of their writers (Ernest Hemingway was a particular favourite) and adored the music of Bob Dylan and Mississippi John Hurt. On the other [...]

The Great Nicobar Planned Disaster, The Telegraph

No term in Indian public discourse is as egregiously misleading as ‘national media’. For the newspapers, magazines and TV channels that come under this rubric have a narrow, blinkered, view of the nation they claim to represent. They see India [...]

Lahore Past and Present, The Telegraph

Many years ago, while working on a social history of sport, I came across some news reports of a Test match played in Lahore in 1955. The cricket itself was boring in the extreme. It was one of five draws [...]

About The Author

Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer based in Bangalore. He has taught at the universities of Yale and Stanford, held the Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, and been the Indo-American Community Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
In the academic year 2011-2 he served as the Philippe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.