THE LETTERS OF A LONELY MAN, The Hindu
I have been reading the letters of Macaulay, these printed in a handsome volume published a hundred years ago, and edited by his nephew George Otto Trevelyan. Some forty pages [...]
PLURALISM IN THE INDIAN UNIVERSITY, Economic and Political Weekly
Earlier this year, the National Archives mounted an exhibition on the founding of the first modern universities in India. A Kolkata newspaper gave its report on this exhibition the headline: [...]
SCOTTISH INTERNATIONALIST, The Hindu
‘India lives in her villages’, said Mahatma Gandhi. This is an injunction that the environmental movement in India has taken very seriously indeed. Thus scholars and activists have argued about [...]
SCOTTISH INTERNATIONALIST, The Hindu
‘India lives in her villages’, said Mahatma Gandhi. This is an injunction that the environmental movement in India has taken very seriously indeed. Thus scholars and activists have argued about [...]
REGIONALISM AND THE REPUBLIC, The Telegraph
The recent attacks on Bihari labourers by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) are criminal acts, and deserve to be treated as such by the security forces, and by [...]
GENTLE DENTS IN A WORTHY IDOL, The Telegraph
I think it is fair to say that of all Indian industralists past and present, J. R. D. Tata has been the most widely admired. Part of the reason had [...]