April 2007
THE LAST QUAKER IN INDIA, The Hindu
On London’s busy Euston Road, opposite the even busier Euston Station, stands a stone building supported by two large pillars. This is Friends House, the headquarters of the Society of Friends, who are also known [...]
THE LAST QUAKER IN INDIA, The Hindu
On London’s busy Euston Road, opposite the even busier Euston Station, stands a stone building supported by two large pillars. This is Friends House, the headquarters of the Society of Friends, who are also known [...]
LONG DISTANCE NATIONALISMS, The Telegraph
A friend from Sri Lanka recently visited Bangalore, and not unexpectedly was in a mood of dark depression. The always uneasy cease-fire between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam and the Sri Lankan Government had [...]
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’. [...]