Ramachandra Guha

Bangalore

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Historian of modern India, biographer of Gandhi. Retweets not necessarily endorsements.

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Ramachandra Guha: Trump’s attack on US universities are a tragedy for the entire world

1 week ago | scroll.in | Ramachandra Guha

Growing up in the India of the 1970s, I had ambivalent feelings towards America. I admired some of their writers (Ernest Hemingway was a particular favourite) and adored the music of Bob Dylan and Mississippi John Hurt. On the other hand, I was just about old enough to remember – and never forget – how Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger had so energetically supported Pakistan against India (and Bangladesh) in the war of 1971.
Ramachandra Guha: Trump’s attack on US universities are a tragedy for the entire world

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ramachandra Guha

14 hours agoMcClellan: Why go after Harvard? Yale is the problem. The government is going after Harvard? I used to sit next to Eliot Porter. He was a Harvard graduate, the first one I had ever met. He suffered from …1 day ago‘Only One Solution’: Pro-Hamas Dartmouth College Group Occupies Building, Injures StaffA pro-Hamas group at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire which calls itself the “New Deal Coalition” (NDC) commandeered the anteroom of the …
Under attack: My debt to the American university - Telegraph India

1 week ago | telegraphindia.com | Ramachandra Guha

I feel a deep sense of anguish and anger at what Donald Trump is doing to wreck the American university system. Trump’s campaign is causing enormous damage to a country he leads and claims to love Ramachandra Guha Published 31.05.25, 07:18 AM Representational image Sourced by the Telegraph Growing up in the India of the 1970s, I had ambivalent feelings towards America.
Ramachandra Guha: How thinking patriots should view the renewed hyphenation of India with Pakistan

3 weeks ago | scroll.in | Ramachandra Guha

India and Pakistan were born at the same time, cut from the cloth of the same Empire. They inherited a common political, economic and cultural legacy. Yet, in the nearly eight decades of their existence, their fortunes have markedly diverged. The Indian economy has advanced more quickly; its per capita income is now almost twice that of Pakistan. India has stayed united, whereas Pakistan lost its more populous eastern wing in 1971, which became the sovereign nation of Bangladesh.
A wake-up call | Flipboard

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ramachandra Guha

NowPope Leo XIV is getting recognition at the Chicago White Sox's ballpark, Rate Field, to commemorate his 2005 World Series attendance. The team plans to unveil a graphic Monday that honors the pope. Last week, Chicago native Robert Prevost revealed his White Sox fandom, and footage of Prevost …
A wake-up call: The hyphen separating India and Pakistan has collapsed - Telegraph India

3 weeks ago | telegraphindia.com | Ramachandra Guha

Even as our democratic and secular fabric has frayed, our economic progress has stalled. The gap between China and India is now so large that the phrase, ‘Chindia’, has dropped out of circulation Ramachandra Guha Published 17.05.25, 05:20 AM Asim Munir and Narendra Modi The Telegraph India and Pakistan were born at the same time, cut from the cloth of the same Empire. They inherited a common political, economic, and cultural legacy.
Ramachandra Guha: In wake of Pahalgam, recalling Nehru’s advice on resisting Pakistan’s provocations

1 month ago | scroll.in | Ramachandra Guha

Surely the most noble of human emotions is to find hope in the midst of tragedy. One of the tourists killed by the terrorists in Pahalgam was N Ramachandran from Kerala. On her return home, his daughter, Arathy Sarath, spoke movingly of the succour she found from two young men in the wake of her suffering. The Hindu newspaper quoted Sarath as saying: “Musafir and another local driver Sameer were with me all through, including when I stood outside the morgue till 3 am.
Ramachandra Guha: In wake of Pahalgam, recalling Nehru’s advice on resisting Pakistan’s provocations

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Ramachandra Guha

1 day agoPahalgam attack: A simple guide to the Kashmir conflictThe roots of this decades-long conflict between India and Pakistan go back to the turbulent partition of 1947.
The Pahalgam test

1 month ago | telegraphindia.com | Ramachandra Guha

The terrorists hoped to polarise Hindus against Muslims across India. They failed in this aim as far as Kashmir is concerned. Now it is for the rest of us to similarly rise to the occasion Ramachandra Guha Published 03.05.25, 07:16 AM A protest against the killing of tourists in Pahalgam. Sourced by the Telegraph Surely the most noble of human emotions is to find hope in the midst of tragedy. One of the tourists killed by the terrorists in Pahalgam was N.
Ramachandra Guha: In Gopal Gandhi’s new book, a personal, nuanced history of the country he loves

1 month ago | scroll.in | Ramachandra Guha

On April 22, 2020, I had posted a thread on Twitter (then not yet X) marking “the 75th birthday of one of the most remarkable living Indians: Gopalkrishna Gandhi, public servant, diplomat, writer and scholar”. The thread spoke of his contributions to his country, the grace and dignity of his character and, in the end, of then personal debt I owed him. Gopal Gandhi, I wrote then, “has taught me more about modern Indian history and Mahatma Gandhi than anyone else”.

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