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Ramachandra Guha

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

Bengaluru/Bangalore

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@Ram_Guha

Ramachandra Guha

4 months

An advance copy of THE COOKING OF BOOKS just arrived. An account of my friendship with the brilliant and reclusive editor Rukun Advani, it is the most personal book I have written as well as the shortest. I trust readers will be grateful to the latter if not the former. The book…

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Vajpayee, when he was Prime Minister, speaking in Parliament about his relationship with Nehru.

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The Prime Minister must immediately announce that there is going to be no National Register of Citizens. That simple and single announcement will do more to restore peace and trust than anything else. The country needs a healing touch, and from the top.

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The story of the Indian economy in two headlines. ⁦ @bsindia ⁩

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In the 1970s, AIR stood for All Indira Radio. ANI stands today for Always in Narendra’s Interest.

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If @JM_Scindia had a spine, he would have done what @MamataOfficial and @PawarSpeaks did—set up his own party.

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Through this act, the Supreme Court has let itself down, and has let the Republic down too. A dark day for Indian democracy.

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Prashant Bhushan Guilty Of Contempt For Tweets On Chief Justice, Judiciary

Lawyer Prashant Bhushan has been held guilty of contempt for his two tweets on Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will decide on the sentence on August 20. A...

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"Gujarat, though economically advanced, is culturally a backward province... . Bengal in contrast is economically backward but culturally advanced". Philip Spratt, writing in 1939.

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"I do not want India to be a country in which millions of people say 'yes' to one man. I want a strong opposition". Thus Jawaharlal Nehru, speaking in 1950, the year the Republic was founded.

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My friend Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, indomitable as ever. ⁦ @paranjoygt ⁩

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A sitting Prime Minister who speaks so cold bloodedly of starting a nuclear war: merely to win re-election: Let’s be absolutely clear; this man does not care for India, Indians, the globe, humanity. All he cares is for his own gaddi.

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Our nuclear weapons are not for Diwali: PM Modi on Pak's nuclear button threat

PM Modi said, "Every other day they used to say 'we have nuclear button, we have nuclear button'. What do we have then? Have we kept it for Diwali?"

www.indiatoday.in

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Jawaharlal Nehru to Chief Ministers, 1954: "It is always the duty and obligation of the majority to win the goodwill of the minorities by fair and even generous treatment". This precious maxim is now violated everyday, all over India, which is why the Republic is in peril.

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I'll be writing a regular column for @ndtv My first article for them should be up soon.

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This is a myth, that has been comprehensively demolished by Professor Srinath Raghavan in The Print. Besides, promoting fake news about, and false rivalries between, the builders of modern India is not the job of the Foreign Minister. He should leave this to the BJP’s IT Cell.

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Learnt from the book that Nehru did not want Patel in the Cabinet in 1947 and omitted him from the initial Cabinet list. Clearly, a subject for much debate. Noted that the author stood her ground on this revelation.

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If there is indeed a Tukde Tukde Gang its Commander-in-Chief is Amit Shah. He will divide, polarise, and fan anger, hatred, violence—anything to win elections. He is the most dangerous and divisive politician in the history of independent India.

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In March 1975, when a unified Opposition led by Jayaprakash Narayan organized a public meeting in Delhi to protest the policies of Indira Gandhi’s Government, Doordarshan was asked to telecast the hit film "Bobby" at the same time as the meeting was held.

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Rajdeep Sardesai

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So @deepikapadukone summoned on September 25 by @narcoticsbureau . Farmers all India protest on Sept 25. Samajh mein aaya?🙏

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Authoritarianism is bad for science, but bigotry may be worse. That is why so many of our top scientists have issued a collective statement against the Citizenship Amendment Act. My column in @ttindia :

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The reign of unreason

Why authoritarianism is bad for science, but bigotry is even worse

www.telegraphindia.com

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Can the MHA unlock Sudha Bharadwaj and Anand Teltumbde please? And all the other brave, non-violent, Indian democrats it has put away on false, framed up, charges? And while it is in this new unlocking mood, can the MHA also unlock 4G for all residents of J&K please?

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To make two things absolutely clear. 1. The immediate withdrawal of the NRC is a necessary first step to restore trust and heal the nation. 2. The CAA is immoral and against the spirit of the Constitution. A wise and just Government would withdraw it too.

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I am glad that my friend @Ram_Guha has distinguished between the CAA that gives succour to Hindu and Buddhist refugees from Bangladesh from the NRC which has neither been designed nor notified.

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Mahatma Gandhi, in a statement addressed "To Gujaratis", 14 January 1948: "All Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians and Jews who people this country have an equal right to it. No one can say that it has place only for the majority and the minority should be dishonoured."

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The letter of 1 August where Nehru invites Patel to join the first Cabinet of free India, calling him the “strongest pillar” of that Cabinet. Can someone show this to ⁦ @DrSJaishankar ⁩ please?

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I have deleted the photo of my lunch in Goa as it was in poor taste. I do wish however to again highlight the absolute hypocrisy of the BJP in the matter of beef, and to reiterate my own belief that humans must have the right to eat, dress, and fall in love as they choose.

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In 2012, Arun Jaitley, then leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, remarked, "There are two kinds of judges–one who knows the law, the other who knows the Law Minister". Now there are three kinds of judges; the third kind knowing the Law Minister AND the Home Minister.

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This is a very important thread. Why a new fund when a Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund already exists? And why the self-aggrandizing name, PM-CARES? Must a colossal national tragedy also be (mis)used to enhance the cult of personality?

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PM-CARES is a Public Charitable Trust. The Prime Minister is the Chairman & members include DM, HM & FM. Stated Objective: dealing with any kind of emergency or distress situation, like posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to provide relief to the affected. So far so good

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The SC may judge PM-CARES to be 'legal', but it remains both immoral and unethical. To cynically misuse a colossal national tragedy to promote a cult of personality violates all canons of decency and democracy.

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On this historic day, DRDO joins the growing list of public institutions whose professional autonomy and integrity must be destroyed to fulfill the vanity and ambition of one man. The question now is: does the EC want to join that list too?

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That such a film will be shown and promoted during the elections demonstrates the joke and farce that the “model code of conduct” is; how can the Election Commission allow it?

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Vivek Oberoi’s PM Narendra Modi to hit theatres on April 12

Vivek Oberoi’s biopic on Narendra Modi is in its last leg of shoot in Mumbai. It will be released on April 12.

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Event Management 9.0 A great thinker once said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. In 21st century India, we have farce at the time of tragedy.

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Can the honourable Home Minister also give an interview to Ravish Kumar please?

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At 8 pm @BJP4India President @AmitShah will be live on @IndiaToday & @aajtak The venue is already packed to the rafters. And there is massive buzz about what the Home Minister may say. Do tune in live to our TV channels and social media to watch this much anticipated session.

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Sir, since you have a Ph D from JNU you must surely have read more books than me. Among them must have been the published correspondence of Nehru and Patel which documents how Nehru wanted Patel as the “strongest pillar” of his first Cabinet. Do consult those books again.

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Some Foreign Ministers do read books. May be a good habit for some Professors too. In that case, strongly recommend the one I released yesterday.

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Savarkar, 1943: "I have no quarrel with Mr Jinnah's two-nation theory. We Hindus are a nation by ourselves and it is a historical fact that Hindus and Muslims are two nations". The Home Minister, a professed Savarkarite, has no quarrel with Mr Jinnah's two-nation theory either.

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It is astonishing that Rahul Gandhi has not yet resigned as Congress President. His party performed very poorly; he lost his own pocket borough. Both self-respect, as well as political pragmatism, demand that the Congress elect a new leader. But perhaps the Congress has neither.

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I just voted, and for a progressive, prosperous and peaceful Karnataka too.

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I voted for progressive, prosperous and peaceful Karnataka. If you have a voting right here, don't waste it. #karnatakaelections2023

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If the Prime Minister wants to pray in a temple he should do so privately and without cameras in attendance. These public displays at state expense are repugnant. They demean his office.

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Mirror Now asked me for an "exclusive contract" as a panelist for the 2019 elections. Naturally I declined. If @vineetjaintimes wants to serve the cause of truth, he should shut down the vile and bigoted Times Now, not try to fool us with this good cop/bad cop business.

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The Kerala model of human development, based on transparency, science, and social equality, has far more to offer India today than a "Gujarat model" based on secrecy, communalism, and the cult of personality: My column in @ndtv :

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Give Us Kerala Model Over Gujarat Model, Any Day - By Ramachandra Guha

For all their flaws, the state and people of Kerala have many things to teach us, who live in the rest of India. We forgot about their virtues in the past decade, but now these virtues are once more...

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"India’s most populous state, home to 200 million people, is hostage to the recklessness of a Muslim-hating chief minister. His regime is treating Muslims as the enemy, not as citizens." A chilling report on state violence in Uttar Pradesh:

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We knew Adityanath was hostile to Muslims. But did we expect his regime to be so savage?

Eight questions that clear the fog around this fortnight’s horrific events in Uttar Pradesh.

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Before May 2014, four public institutions were moderately autonomous and independent: the Armed Services, the RBI, the EC, and the Supreme Court. Now all are subject to various degrees of capture and intimidation by the ruling party at the Centre.

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I am glad Satya Nadella has said what he has. I wish that one of our own IT czars had the courage and wisdom to say this first. Or to say it even now.

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Big headline. @satyanadella weighs in on the discriminatory new citizenship legislation and the even worse proposed #NRC

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Very pleased with this recognition from one’s peers. That the award is named for an eminent historian from Assam makes it doubly precious.

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#AWARD We are absolutely thrilled to share that @Ram_Guha ’s #Gandhi : The Years that Changed the World' has been awarded the Prof. H. K. Barpujari National Award for the best book on any period of Indian history by the Indian History Congress. Congratulations Ram! #ProudPublishers

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One day a politician originally from Gujarat may wish to call his autobiography "THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH, HALF-TRUTH, AND UNTRUTH":

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Deal with it, Mr Half-Truth

www.telegraphindia.com

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For print and online readers of my regular "Past and Present" column in the Hindustan Times—for this Sunday's issue I had written on the folly and vanity of the Central Vista project. The newspaper has censored the column. The piece will soon appear in another (and braver) forum.

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Sardar Patel would have been appalled by the crude boastfulness of the ads in his name in today’s newspapers. That his statue is taller than any in China, America, Japan, etc. That is certainly not how the Sardar would have measured national dignity and self respect.

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Academics, Rights Activists Condemn Umar Khalid's Arrest, Accuse Delhi Police of 'Witch Hunt'

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Nehru and Patel individually and together elevated and united India. Modi and Shah individually and together degrade and divide India.

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Rajdeep Sardesai

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This constant attempt to stir a Nehru Vs Patel conflict is deplorable. Don't reduce great nation builders to caricatures for narrow political ends. And yes, a more accurate reading of complex historical figures would help.. #BudgetSession

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The Home Minister of Karnataka has claimed on the floor of the State Assembly that he apologized to me by phone for the manhandling by the Bengaluru police on 19th December 2019. This is false. I received no such call or apology. 1/2

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Those Indians who think making religion the basis of a nation’s identity will make it powerful and prosperous need only look as far as Pakistan.

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As a biographer of Gandhi, I have no doubt that if the Mahatma was alive today, he would don his lawyer's robes and defend Sudha Bharadwaj in court; that is assuming the Modi Sarkar hadn't yet detained and arrested him too

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Amit Shah’s insinuation, that Muslims shall not and cannot be safe and secure in India, will be widely acclaimed in one country: Pakistan. Shah’s majoritarian bigotry is music to the ears of those who rule that country.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee said the answer to a book or article can only be another book or article. But we no longer live in Vajpayee's India

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This is a clear violation of the injunction that the armed forces must not be invoked for political gain. The EC’s failure to stop this shows that it is utterly, utterly, compromised.

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WATCH | “Will you dedicate your vote to the brave men who conducted Balakot airstrikes, to the CRPF men who lost their lives in Pulwama attack?” PM Modi asks first-time voters

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Father Stan Swamy spent a lifetime working for the dispossessed and the disadvantaged. His tragic death is a case of judicial murder, for which the Home Ministry and the Courts are jointly culpable.

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Modi and Adityanath are textbook cases of what is called the "authoritarian personality". They will both use the current crisis to seek to suppress what remains of the independent media. The only difference is that Modi’s methods will be slightly less crude.

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I have joined the Indian Institute of Science as Satish Dhawan Visiting Professor, for one year, starting today. Am deeply honoured to hold a chair named for this great scientist and institution-builder, who played such a critical role in making IISc and ISRO what they are today.

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Gandhi, 1920: "Co-operation is a duty only so long as Government protects your honour, and non-co-operation is an equal duty when the Government, instead of protecting you robs you of your honour".

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As I have written before, the ideology of the RSS can be summed up in six words: We shall show Muslims their place. What is happening in Karnataka today is a chilling illustration of that ideology in practice, enforced with all the powers of the state that it now commands.

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The Constitution lists as a citizen's fundamental duties "to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform". An Amendment is in order; to ask us all to promote astrology and voodoo and blind faith instead.

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Jawaharlal Nehru, October 1947: "Whatever the provocation from Pakistan & whatever the indignities and horrors inflicted on non-Muslims there, we have got to deal with this minority in a civilized manner. We must give them security & the rights of citizens in a democratic State."

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The wonderful, selfless, generous Sikhs who have so much to teach us of other faiths:

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How to Feed Crowds in a Protest or Pandemic? The Sikhs Know (Published 2020)

Their centuries-old faith tradition of nourishing anyone in need has found new energy and purpose in America’s turmoil.

www.nytimes.com

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I woke up this morning to a lovely gift; a young friend had mailed me this rare photo of Nehru and Patel, their mutual affection and regard so strikingly manifest:

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India loses its status as ‘free’ under Freedom House’s 2021 report

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Your house gets burnt and looted, you file a complaint; and you get arrested. An important and disturbing report on the state of "justice" in the national capital today:

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In Delhi violence investigation, a disturbing pattern: Victims end up being prosecuted by police

Hundreds have been arrested by the Delhi Police, even as the lockdown made scrutiny and access to justice difficult.

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A non BJP public figure who truly deserves the Bharat Ratna is MS Swaminathan, for his services to science and agriculture. To choose the controversial Pranab M over the credible MSS is mystifying. It won't even get the BJP many votes in West Bengal.

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In my @htTweets column, in print today, I had identified some TV channels as particularly jingoistic: Zee, Aaj Tak, Times Now, and Republic. The newspaper has, without my permission, removed these names. If they are not reinserted in the web version, I shall stop my column.

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When a scholar like myself is stopped from speaking, that is intolerance. When a great musician like TM Krishna is prevented from performing, it is not intolerance, but barbarism: my column in @IndianExpress :

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If Krishna can’t sing

It’s in an uncivilised world that a great musician can be prevented from performing in the national capital

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The moral timidity of Sachin Tendulkar

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The moral timidity of Sachin Tendulkar

Despite his titanic successes on the field Sachin Tendulkar has never grown past a timidity towards authority, blissfully unaware of his own stature.

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A fact-check for the Army Chief, from today's Indian Express: "The civic protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) reported from cities across the country have been largely peaceful, barring in states ruled by the BJP..."

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#WATCH Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat: Leaders are not those who lead ppl in inappropriate direction. As we are witnessing in large number of universities&colleges,students the way they are leading masses&crowds to carry out arson&violence in cities & towns. This is not leadership.

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Delighted to hear that Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Dufflo have won the Nobel Prize for Economics. Richly deserved. Abhijit is a proud graduate of that much-maligned university, JNU, and his work has inspired many younger Indian scholars.

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With Harsh Mander named in Delhi riots chargesheet, Indian democracy has slipped into a dark hole

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With Harsh Mander named in Delhi riots chargesheet, Indian democracy has slipped into a dark hole

He gave a speech that called for love and non-violence. Government agencies consider this an act of provocation.

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For the Congress to effectively challenge Modi & the BJP, it must (a) organize a ghar wapsi for the TMC, NCP, & YSR Congress; (b) replace Rahul Gandhi with a leader who speaks fluent Hindi, has a mass base, & a capacity for hard work: My column in @ndtv :

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5 Reasons Why Rahul Gandhi Cannot Take On Modi For PM - by Ramachandra Guha

That Rahul Gandhi is the son, grandson and great grandson of former Prime Ministers is not an advantage in the eyes of most Indians, who are increasingly disenchanted with claims to entitlement based...

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The riots in Delhi are only the latest in a series of disasters that have unfolded under the watch of the Home Minister. The draconian shutdown in Kashmir, the polarizing and unnecessary CAA, the vandalizing of universities by the Delhi police, precedes them. 1/5

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I salute the Principal and Vice Principal who have resigned because their college's trustees disinvited @jigneshmevani80 . They represent the best traditions of Gujarat. Patel, Gandhi, and Hansa Mehta would have been proud of them:

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Principal, VP quit after Gujarat college says no Jignesh Mevani event

According to the in-charge principal of the college, Hemantkumar Shah, Mevani was invited as chief guest for the annual function because he is an alumnus and an MLA.

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Today's @IndianExpress has a civilized debate on the future of the Congress Party. Yogendra Yadav thinks the Congress Must Die; Suhas Palshikar thinks the Congress Must Live. Neither mentions a third (and most honourable) alternative: The Congress should dump the Dynasty.

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Gandhi gave Indians a spine. Modi seems determined to take it away.

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Every CBSE school was compelled to hear the Prime Minister promote his new book. The Principal of a school in my neighbourhood was asked by a student: ‘Sir, what exactly is the exam that the Prime Minister has passed?" Doubtless the same question was asked in other schools too.

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Madhya Pradesh Police Apologise for Beating Lawyer, 'We Thought You Were Muslim,' They Say

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Madhya Pradesh Police Apologise for Beating Lawyer, 'We Thought You Were Muslim,' They Say

Police have allegedly attempted to get lawyer Deepak Bundele to withdraw his complaint on the seemingly unprovoked beating.

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Jayaprakash Narayan on Kashmir, 1966: ‘If we continue to rule by force and suppress these people and crush them or change the racial or religious character of their state by colonization, or by any other means, then I think that means politically a most obnoxious thing to do’.

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Why are the Indian Railways charging the already distressed stranded workers for their travel? @PMOIndia

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Mother of Democracy

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No country in the world imposes more internet shutdowns than India. Last year India enforced more than 3X as many shutdowns as war torn Ukraine.

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The pre-eminent historian of Indian citizenship, Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal, says in this interview that the "vision of India, as a secular, inclusive, plural, multicultural democracy, is certainly under threat more than at any previous time". I agree:

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India’s Citizenship Emergency

Niraja Gopal Jayal, the author of several books on Indian democracy, discusses recent efforts by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to marginalize India’s Muslims and the greatest challenges facing those...

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These private airlines weren’t even asked to bend, and they crawled.

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Not a fan of the heckling of Arnab, but this is straight up ridiculous. (And prob. legally dubious)

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“South India has counted for too little in the Indian Republic. This is a waste for India as well as an unfairness to south India, because the south has a superiority in certain important things – in its relative lack of violence, its lack of anti-Muslim intolerance, ... its…

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Am very pleased that @SushmaSwaraj told the world of the IITs and IIMs; and greatly relieved that she didn’t credit them to the Vedas.

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Five more years of Narendra Modi will take India to a dark place | Kapil Komireddi | Opinion | The Guardian

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Five more years of Narendra Modi will take India to a dark place | Kapil Komireddi

If the Indian prime minister is returned to office, his sectarian politics will make bigotry the defining ideal of the republic, says author Kapil Komireddi

www.theguardian.com

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Swami Agnivesh is known for his work to emancipate bonded labour, and for the promotion of inter-faith harmony. He also has a sense of fun, with a joyous laugh. A Hindu monk of courage, compassion, and humour; so naturally he must be beaten up in Modi’s India.

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"Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship." Dr B. R. Ambedkar, in his last speech to the Constituent Assembly of India.

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Mohan Bhagwat now claims Gandhi had a soft spot for the RSS. That is a lie. Gandhi was opposed to the RSS’s sectarianism; and the RSS, for its part, deeply detested Gandhi while he was alive. The true facts are in the article linked below:

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Gandhi and the RSS

The facts behind a relationship of deeply imperfect sympathies

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The attack on the free press in India:

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Opinion | When News Suppression Hits Home

My brother in India faces criminal charges for reporting a story.

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I have received threatening calls from a man calling himself Sanjay from Delhi. His number is +91-98351-38678. He threatened my wife as well as me. This is for the record.

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The Prime Minister was known to be a brilliant orator but this is a dreadfully dull speech. It is the political equivalent of Sachin Tendulkar choosing to bat like Geoffrey Boycott.

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As India slides towards authoritarianism, the incompetent First Family of the Congress inhibits the emergence of a credible Opposition. They owe it to the country to quit. My column in ⁦ @htTweets ⁩ :

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Why the Gandhis cannot lead India’s Opposition, writes Ramachandra Guha

Younger Indians are rightly appalled that the party of the freedom movement believes that only a fifth-generation dynast can lead it. Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka may think they owe it to the Congress...

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On the morning of 10th May, the day of polling, newspapers in Bengaluru carried the ads reproduced below. Do see them side by side. The BJP in Karnataka was pushing the Prime Minister front and centre; the Congress in Karnataka was promoting only its two major state leaders. In…

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"It became usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune". George Orwell, "Animal Farm".

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Dear Barkha, By all means address the Delhi CM, but address the CMs of UP, Punjab, and Haryana too. And, above all, put these questions to the Prime Minister, whose silence and inaction with regard to this national health emergency is both disgraceful and despicable.

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I am unable to breathe even inside my home in Delhi tonight. @ArvindKejriwal you need to make odd even permanent and bar all construction till early next year. We will die as we keep debating whether these are main causes or not. Every little thing helps. Please do it.

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Hindutva will harm, even destroy India: Guha | Deccan Herald

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Hindutva will harm, even destroy India: Guha

These forms of nation-building contrast sharply with that of India's founding, which coalesced around the enlightened post-world War II ideals of religious, equality, respect for other people and a...

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The Central Vista project intends to make the existing Parliament Building a "Museum for Democracy". This is grimly appropriate, since Museums are for things that are dead or extinct. Thus South Africa has an Apartheid Museum. And India will one day have a Museum for Democracy.

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One more Union Education Minister with dodgy degrees:

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Narendra Modi’s new mantra: Na interview doonga na kisi ko dene doonga.

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A message from the economist Abhijit Banerjee: "If you are on social media will you publicize the fact that I am being impersonated on Twitter as AbhijitBanerj. I am not on Twitter".

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Sad to see a fine economist, distinguished public servant, outstanding Finance Minister and two term Prime Minister being so sycophantic. He lowers himself and, more importantly, all the offices he has held:

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@OfficeOfRG @INCIndia "Today is a historic day for India…Please pardon me if I get somewhat emotional," says former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Watch LIVE: #CongressPresidentRahulGandhi

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