What stops me from speaking my mind- a common man’s open letter to Rama Guha

Dear Mr Guha, Even though I cannot claim to be your fan, or even someone who follows your writings seriously, I cannot help, but notice some similarities between us. Like you, I too have been a lifelong cricket More...

Conformity as History: A review of Ramachandra Guha’s Makers of Modern India

In post-Independent India, conformism to the received wisdom is the key to “glory” in social sciences/historical studies, and deviation leads to guillotine. Ramachandra Guha is fully conscious of this More...

Guha’s Congress Definition is Opportunistic

Assertion Ramachandra Guha provides the following definitions of the Congress party in two separate articles, written for separate publications. In the first written in the Times of India on 13 November 2013, More...

Gandhi was a Heterodox Hindu: Ramachandra Guha

Assertion: In an article in The Hindu about what the Hindus should be proud of and what they should be ashamed of, Ramachandra Guha makes several fantastic and misleading claims about Hindus and Hinduism. Of More...

U R Ananthamurthy is a lifelong anti-Congressman: Ram Guha

Assertion Cricket historian, writer, and commentator Ramachandra Guha in response to a tweet, said this:   Facts U R Ananthamurthy has made no bones about his being an arch Communist in his heydays. He was More...