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...
Left-Liberals, Bhagavad Gita and Social Media
Observing Left liberals is a favorite pastime of mine. Given the fact that I am Right of Center in my disposition, I like to track and understand the opposing view. To paraphrase Russell, I make it a point to read 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...
Ramachandra Guha’s Casteist Slur on Hindu Charity
Going by the tomes he has written as well as by his tweets, it is evident that Ramachandra Guha’s timeline of Indian history begins with Mahatma Gandhi and ends with Nehru. It appears as though according to Guha, 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...