2411, 2002
NIRAD BABU’S NEHRU, The Hindu
On the 8th of September 1951, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian was published in London. When the book finally arrived in India, several weeks later, the author sent a [...]
1011, 2002
VAJPAYEE’S NEHRU, The Hindu
In the spring of 1977, thirty years of Congress rule ended, and a new Government took power in New Delhi. Politicians who had expected to live out their days in [...]
1901, 2002
THE ENVIRONMENTALIST OF THE POOR: ANIL AGARWAL, Economic and Political Weekly
The Berkeley Nobel Laureate George Akerlof once remarked of his fellow economists that if you showed them something that worked in practice, they would not be satisfied unless it was [...]
1301, 2002
The Good Scientist, The Telegraph
In India's halting march to modernity, Bengal and Bengalis were for a very long time in the forefront. Then, in the early decades of the last century, three unconnected events [...]