A FORGOTTEN BENGALI HERO, The Telegraph
Nothing gives the historian greater joy than to discover an individual significant in his time but forgotten in our own. I was thus very pleased to have brought, to the [...]
RAJIV RE-ASSESSED, Hindustan Times
I think it was Voltaire who said that while we can flatter the living, the dead deserve nothing less than the truth. I recalled that injunction when reading Vir Sanghvi’s [...]
THE IMPURITY OF CULTURES, The Hindu
In the 1950s, inspired by Jawaharlal Nehru, some very brilliant young Indians went into the Foreign Service. Among them was the Rhodes scholar Peter Lynn Sinai. A former Ambassador to [...]
MYTHS AND BORDERS, The Hindu
Foreign dignitaries who come to India almost always fly in to the nation’s capital, New Delhi. In April 2005, however, the Prime Minister of the Peoples’ Republic of China chose [...]
FOUR VIEWS OF HINDUS AND MUSLIMS, The Hindu
I have recently been re-reading Bunch of Thoughts, a collection of talks by M. S. Golwalkar published in Bangalore in 1966. Golwalkar was the long-time sarsanghchalak, or head, of the [...]
THE WORLD’S FIRST ANTI-DAM MOVEMENT, The Hindu
Some fifteen years ago, when the Narmada Bachao Andolan was at its height, the ecologist Madhav Gadgil told me about that movement’s forgotten predecessor. Back in the 1920s, the peasants [...]