Ramachandra Guha

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Ramachandra Guha

The author met Rukun Advani at a wedding. And that changed his career as an author. An excerpt from his memoir

Forecast 2024: Life and Past Times

Nandini Nair

Memoirs, histories and investigations that see anew

Public Intellectuals: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, 52, Shashi Tharoor, 63, Swapan Dasgupta, 63, Ramachandra Guha, 61

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The Commentariat

The Man and the Mahatma

Zareer Masani

A majestic biography focuses far more on Gandhi’s relations with opponents like Ambedkar and Jinnah than with his own favourite protégé Jawaharlal Nehru

Ramachandra Guha, Historian

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A Point of Reason

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The Constant Writer

Vaibhav Vats

Ramachandra Guha on the thrills of research, the insecurity of academics and their love of jargon, and why he doesn’t take holidays

India in the Time of Gandhi

Dhirendra K Jha

Historian Ramachandra Guha has stirred up a controversy with his suggestion of a late 1940s collusion between the Left and Muslim communalists in Hyderabad, but the facts don’t justify his claim

Unmaking of Modern India

Hartosh Singh Bal

There are no original thinkers in Indian politics anymore, says Ramachandra Guha

‘My Reputation Can Take Mudslinging’

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Ramachandra Guha in conversation with Rahul Jayaram on the turf war over the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi, which he believes is going down the drain