Ramachandra Guha's Blog, page 26

Experiments with facts - Hindustan Times

[image error] Experiments with facts
Hindustan Times
Narendra Modi may never have banned Joseph Lelyveld's Great Soul had the books editor of the Wall Street Journal been as discerning as his counterpart in the New York Times. The Manhattan dailies carried reviews on the same weekend, but these could not ...

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Delusions of grandeur - Calcutta Telegraph

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[image error] Delusions of grandeur
Calcutta Telegraph
Ahmedabad is a city I know well. I must have made at least 20 trips there in the last 30 years. Going back last month, I found signs marking the distance to a certain 'Mahatma Mandir'. Coloured blue, and with an arrow pointed upwards, these signs were ...

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DREAM TEAMS - Calcutta Telegraph

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[image error] DREAM TEAMS
Calcutta Telegraph
With the World Cup in mind, I sat down with the journalist and cricket nut, Rajdeep Sardesai, to choose an all-time Indian One-Day Eleven. We excluded from our consideration those players whose careers had ended before India began playing this form of ...

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INDIFFERENCE OF BIG MEN - Calcutta Telegraph

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[image error] INDIFFERENCE OF BIG MEN
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I am presently embarked on an exercise that is both utterly exhausting as well as truly educative — the reading, line by line, of every volume of the ...

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MUSIC, FOREVER - Calcutta Telegraph

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[image error] MUSIC, FOREVER
Calcutta Telegraph
As you come out of the Doe Library of the University of California at Berkeley, and turn right, the road slopes downwards and continues until the west edge ...

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The 50-50 democracy - Hindustan Times

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Hindustan Times
Some years ago, when the Government of India was asked to make a special presentation at the World Economic Forum at Davos, it showcased the country's ...

Outlook India: A Nation Consumed by the State [January 2011] - Himal Southasian

[image error] Outlook India: A Nation Consumed by the State [January 2011]
Himal Southasian
Let me begin with two epiphanies. A few years ago, I visited a book fair held on the seafront in Kochi. The local publishers were ...

BEYOND TELANGANA - Calcutta Telegraph

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[image error] BEYOND TELANGANA
Calcutta Telegraph
The United States of America has less than half as many citizens as the republic of India, yet almost twice as many states. The map of that country has been ...

CONTENDING VISIONS - Calcutta Telegraph

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[image error] CONTENDING VISIONS
Calcutta Telegraph
Books do not change lives, but books can change the way we look at the world. As a student of economics, I was a high modernist who believed in transforming ...

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Not To Question Why - CounterCurrents.org

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Thirty years ago, in an act I still feel guilty about, I woke up a very great Indian from his sleep. I was volunteering at a conference ...

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