GHATAK AND THE GOVERNMENT, The Telegraph
My interests, personal as well as professional, are in politics and society; in cultural terms I am more-or-less a philistine. I know a little about literature, a little less about [...]
NEHRU AND NIRALA, The Hindu
Many years ago, the anthropologist Triloki Nath Pandey told me a story featuring Jawaharlal Nehru and the poet Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’. The Prime Minister had just returned from a visit [...]
NEHRU AND NIRALA, The Hindu
Many years ago, the anthropologist Triloki Nath Pandey told me a story featuring Jawaharlal Nehru and the poet Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’. The Prime Minister had just returned from a visit [...]
LOVE AND HATE BEFORE THE AGE OF BUSH, The Telegraph
For most of its career as an independent nation, India has not had the happiest relations with the United States. In the words of the historian Denis Kux, these have [...]
HOW MUCH SHOULD A PERSON CONSUME? University of California Press, Chapter IX
"The United States is presiding at a general reorganization of the ways of living throughout the world." André Siegfried, speaking in 1932 This chapter takes as its point of departure [...]
THE FIRST ‘GANDHIAN’ INTELLECTUALS, The Hindu
While Mahatma Gandhi was alive, not many intellectuals would willingly identify themselves as ‘Gandhian’. Writers and thinkers treated him, at best, with a kindly indulgence; and, at worst, with unremitting [...]