December 2002
AMBEDKAR, The Hindu
In April 1996, I joined a group of Indian scholars for a meeting in the southern town of Manipal in memory of Mahatma Gandhi. The inaugural address was by Shivarama Karanth, who spoke of his [...]
November 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 copy to his literary mentor, [...]
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 the Opposition were unexpectedly thrust [...]
January 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 also seen to work in [...]
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 helped deprive the province of [...]