Ramachandra Guha
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Past articles by Ramachandra:
Ramachandra Guha: How Narendra Modi is using India’s most popular sport to bolster his ego
Earlier this week, Narendra Modi was presented with a portrait of Narendra Modi at the Narendra Modi Stadium. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: How the BJP benefits from stoking religious divisions in Karnataka
A book by French researcher Jackie Assayag on Hindus and Muslims in northern Karnataka published 20 years ago has great contemporary relevance. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: In RK Laxman’s cartoons, the paradoxes and complications of everyday Indian life
In a new monograph, cartoonist EP Unny pays tribute to an older master of his art. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: Ten reasons why Gandhi is still relevant
Thoughts ahead of the Mahatma’s 75th death anniversary. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: How the collapse of the party system reflects the decline of Indian democracy
Some political parties have become family firms. Others have become quasi-religious cults exalting their leader as a living god. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: How the collapse of the party system reflects the decline of Indian democracy
Some political parties have become family firms. Others have become quasi-religious cults exalting their leader as a living god. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: Why I keep returning to the bountiful brilliance of CLR James
A new biography finally does justice to the multifaceted life of the Trinidad-born social historian and activist. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: Lessons on defeating Hindutva from the fraught years after India’s independence
Can the Hindu mind regain its balance, shed its belief in its supremacy, and truly embrace the pluralistic ideals of the freedom struggle? → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: 40 years after Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’, revisiting Indira Gandhi’s views about it
The big budget, much-hyped film elicited vigorous, varying reactions. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: How RSS’s intrinsic authoritarianism, casteism are laid bare by Devanura Mahadeva
The Kannada author writes from the perspective of a defender of the Indian Constitution. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: Memories of Ian Jack, an exceptional columnist and generous human being
Scottish by family background, British by temperament, the writer and editor had a long-standing interest in India. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: India would do well to heed the warnings Radhakamal Mukerjee offered 80 years ago
He was a pioneer in the field of human ecology, emphasising the interdependence of humans and the natural world. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: How political meddling is hurting academic freedom in Indian universities
The state is seeking systematically – and often ruthlessly – to control, manipulate and direct how students and professors on campuses act and think → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: Parallels between CPI(M)’s Jyoti Basu and BJP’s Narendra Modi are cause for alarm
Like Modi’s BJP in India, Basu’s CPI(M) in West Bengal was both brilliant at winning elections and incompetent at governance. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: 50 books that tell the story of 75 years of Indian independence
From Granville Austin’s ‘The Indian Constitution’ to Malika Amar Shaikh’s ‘I Want to Destroy Myself’, a list of essential reading. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: At 75, India is free – but its citizens are still fighting for many rights
The world is looking at India – though not necessarily looking up to India. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: At 75, India is free – but its citizens are still fighting for many rights
The world is looking at India – though not necessarily looking up to India. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: Why India’s refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is hypocritical
As India celebrates 75 years of Independence, the government cannot bring itself to acknowledge the continuing existence of imperialism in the world today. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: In the Boris Johnson drama, lessons for India about preserving democracy
By functioning as they should, the British media, Parliament, civil service, Opposition and ruling party have all helped their political system to renew itself. → Read More
Ramachandra Guha: Why India must heed a professor’s warnings from 1937 about ‘tamarind tree leaders’
Politicians who centralise all decision-making in themselves, refusing to empower or trust others, are unsuited to administering our diverse country. → Read More