March 2007
PUBLIC OFFICE, PRIVATE GAIN, The Telegraph
‘Public service’ is now a less-than-clean word, associated in the middle-class mind with corruption and nepotism. It was not always so. One of my abiding childhood memories is of opening the door on a winter [...]
February 2007
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 of this book excerpt the [...]
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: ‘The Other Revolution of 1857’. [...]
January 2007
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 such matters as the commercial [...]
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 such matters as the commercial [...]
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 the people of Assam. But [...]