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Ramachandra Guha: Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977

Indians have begun voting in the country’s 18th general election. Of the 17 previous iterations, two were particularly important. One was the first...

21.04.2024 50

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Ramachandra Guha: In Mizoram’s community spirit, many lessons for ‘mainland India’

Last month, I spent several stimulating days in Mizoram. I had some knowledge of the state’s political history, met numerous Mizos in the course of...

07.04.2024 30

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Ramachandra Guha: The gentle resistance of Chipko movement pioneer Chandi Prasad Bhatt

An Indian I greatly admire is the social worker and pioneer of the Chipko movement, Chandi Prasad Bhatt. My first meeting with him, when I was in my...

24.03.2024 20

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Ramachandra Guha: Understanding the power of the ‘2A variant’ in the Indian political economy

On March 1, the online edition of The Hindu carried a report by Jagriti Chandra with this headline: “Jamnagar airport gets international status for...

10.03.2024 50

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Ramachandra Guha: Strains between the Centre and Opposition-ruled states do not bode well for India

Since 2019, when Narendra Modi and his party were returned to power with a larger majority, the conflict between the Union government and the states...

25.02.2024 10

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Ramachandra Guha: Attempts by Karnataka Congress to mimic Hindutva methods are morally dubious

The last assembly elections in Karnataka were held in May 2023. For several months prior to the polls, the headlines in the local newspapers were...

11.02.2024 20

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Ramachandra Guha: More than Arabs or Jews, US bears special responsibility for Palestine conflict

Trawling through one of Bangalore’s wonderful second-hand bookstores, I came across a novel called When I Lived in Modern Times. I had not heard of...

28.01.2024 10

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Ramachandra Guha: In the age of Hindutva, why Madhu Dandavate’s legacy must be cherished

The Indian Socialist tradition is now moribund, but there was a time when it had a profound and mostly salutary influence on politics and society. Yet...

14.01.2024 20

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Ramachandra Guha: The Chief Justice and the Father of the Nation

Like most of my readers, I begin the day by reading the newspapers, in my case online and then in print. On Sunday, January 7, the first paper I read...

08.01.2024 50

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Ramachandra Guha: From a Kerala port, a citizens’ report provides proof of ‘destructive development’

Of all the Indian states I know, Kerala has the most active civil society organisations that flourish independently of governments and political...

31.12.2023 30

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Ramachandra Guha: What will the inauguration of the Ram temple portend for India’s future?

“If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country.” – BR Ambedkar In a recent talk in Bengaluru,...

17.12.2023 30

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Ramachandra Guha: In new book, an exploration of Hindutva’s paranoid triumphalism through H-Pop

In recent years, a stream of books and articles has appeared seeking to analyse the theory and practice of Hindutva. They have sought to alternatively...

03.12.2023 10

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Ramachandra Guha: Are bad ideas at the root of the ecological crisis?

The climate crisis has brought human ill-treatment of nature forcibly to our attention though, of course, India’s environmental problems are by no...

19.11.2023 20

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Ramachandra Guha: Six months of chaos in Manipur shows utter failure of double-engine government

The news cycle this past fortnight has been dominated by two things: the matches in the cricket World Cup and the savage bombing by Israel of Gaza,...

05.11.2023 70

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Ramachandra Guha: Why a sustainable future looks brighter for the Nilgiris than the Garhwal Himalaya

Over the last four decades, I have taken part in countless academic seminars and literary festivals. The most recent took place last month, and was...

10.09.2023 30

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