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@Ram_Guha

Historian of Indian democracy, biographer of Gandhi. Retweets not necessarily endorsements.

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Sumali noong Agosto 2013
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    11 oras ang nakalipas

    21 Indian cities, including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai & Hyderabad, may run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting 100 mn people; 40% of country’s population will have no access to drinking water by 2030.

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  2. 9 (na) oras ang nakalipas

    On World Environment Day, am re-posting a piece from 2011 on the great Chipko pioneer Chandi Prasad Bhatt. A longer essay on Bhattji and his work is in my book "How Much Should a Person Consume?"

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  3. 10 oras ang nakalipas

    "Majoritarian India has never been so audaciously enthroned. The majoritarian ethic has never appeared so unflinching in its determination to impose itself": A powerful, chilling, piece by on what these election results really mean:

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  4. Hun 4

    CMS report says BJP spent nearly 45% – Rs 27,000 crore – of the total expenditure for 2019 Lok Sabha

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  5. Hun 2

    As I write, "India turfed out the Buddha because his ideas of equality were antithetical to our love of social hierarchy. Now, many Indians wish to turf out the Mahatma because they find his ideas of interfaith harmony antithetical to their love of majoritarian bigotry."

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    As Godse worship goes mainstream and enters the Indian Parliament, my column in analyses the hardline Hindutva hatred of Mahatma Gandhi:

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  7. Hun 1

    This column (from 2005) on the protests against Hindi in Tamil Nadu back in 1965 suddenly seems relevant again:

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  8. Hun 1

    "Hindu-Hindi majoritarianism can be fought through a sustained struggle for states’ rights". This essay by Professor Partha Chatterjee is particularly timely in view of reports of fresh attempts by the Central Government to impose Hindi in South India:

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    Hun 1

    | Godse worship goes mainstream in India, writes

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    I don't need an apology. They need to apologise to public for misleading them. I knew from day 1 what I wrote was 100% correct as I had a copy of the NSSO report - one reason I didn't feel intimidated at all 🙃

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  11. Hun 1

    Voices on the margins in the era of climate change

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    Hun 1

    India's new Home Minister is a former accused in extra judicial murders, sent to jail; accused of snooping on a woman & a man who labelled migrants/ muslims as termites. In Washington Post I write on Amit Shah who many see as d invisible Prime Minister

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    May 31

    Old Gujarati: My Experiments with Truth New Gujarati: My Encounters with Truth

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  14. Hun 1

    One more Union Education Minister with dodgy degrees:

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  15. May 31

    "It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation". The American Civil War General, W. T. Sherman, speaking in 1879.

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  16. May 30

    After the 1967 elections had seen many new parties come to power in the States, Spratt wrote: “There is no point in freeing oneself from the bureaucracy of Delhi, only to be enmeshed in the toils of the bureaucracies of Calcutta, Madras or Trivandrum”.

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  17. May 30

    Philip Spratt, an Englishman who became an Indian, as well as a Communist who became a free market liberal, wrote in 1966: “The socialist bureaucracy is the modern form of the caste system “.

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    May 30

    Kargil war veteran, who once policed the border, now declared a foreigner and sent to detention centre in Assam.

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  19. May 30

    “The Congress is losing touch with the younger men of India, and no longer raises the enthusiasm which was caused by it in its earlier days.” Annie Besant to Bhupendranath Badu, September 1914.

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  20. May 30

    “Public life is never a bed of roses, but it is peculiarly thorny in India”. Annie Besant, writing to V. S. Srinivasa Sastri in May 1918.

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