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Kiriyama Prize: Ramachandra Guha among finalists

Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi has been picked among the finalists in the prestigious 12th annual Kiriyama Prize. Conceived to promote greater understanding of South Asia and the Pacific......

One march won't revive Cong: Ramachandra Guha on Bharat Jodo Yatra

Historian Ramachandra Guha has said that to 'revive' healthy democracy in India in which one party does not steamroll the Opposition, a lot depends on the Congress becoming more competitive, which......

Kerala did disastrous thing by electing Rahul: Ramachandra Guha

A "fifth-generation dynast" Rahul Gandhi has no chance in Indian politics against a "hard-working and self-made" Narendra Modi, and Kerala did a disastrous thing by electing the Congress leader to......

Hindi scholar Francesca Orsini, in black list, deported from India

A professor associated with the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London was deported from the IGI Airport over alleged violation of visa conditions, a government source......

'Nicobar's exploitation portrayed as strategic defence project'

Over 70 scientists, environmentalists and former bureaucrats have urged the government to reconsider the Rs 92,000-crore Great Nicobar Island project, claiming that it is "an exploitative......

Big bucks? Authors too are getting them

Authors have finally started making news in India, with the size of their book advances and not just their books themselves. Ramachandra Guha had publishers vying to offer him upwards of a crore of......

Over 48,000, including top industrialists, sign petition for GST

Even people from US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, the UAE, South Africa and New Zealand have signed the petition. Over 48,000 people, including prominent industrialists, have......

Shastri: India's forgotten reformer

Shastri took the first big step to transform India’s agriculture, the benefits of which his successors reaped in plenty, says A K Bhattacharya. In a recent article, eminent historian......

Gandhi Starts With A Kiss In Toronto

The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is extra special for India. It will see the world premiere of Hansal Mehta's Gandhi, the first Indian series ever to be premiered at......

Will These Films Win An Oscar?

The Toronto International Film Festival has come a long way in the last 50 years -- from the time it was known as the Festival of Festivals to becoming the biggest film event of North America and......

Pratik Gandhi To Play Mahatma Gandhi

IMAGE: Historian Ramachandra Guha, centre, with actor Pratik Gandhi, right, and Applause Entertainment CEO Sameer Nair, left. Gandhi Before India and Gandhi -- The Years That Changed The World,......

Cinema Has Loved Gandhi; Get Ready To See Him Again

IMAGE: Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. For Mahatma Gandhi, cinema was a corrupting influence on young minds, a 'sinful technology'. It is that very medium which......

The curtain falls: Theatre legend Girish Karnad takes a final bow

'With his stature as a playwright and actor, Girish Karnad was one of the voices of modernity for not just Karnataka but the entire country.' IMAGE: Girish Karnad. Photograph: Rajesh......

Historian Ramachandra Guha resigns from BCCI post

Historian Ramachandra Guha, appointed by the Supreme Court as one of the four administrators of BCCI, on Thursday informed the court that he had resigned from the post due to personal reasons. A......

Was proximity to Kumble behind Guha's resignation?

Ramachandra Guha has cited personal reasons but his resignation from the Committee of Administrators (COA) could be linked to the speculation surrounding Anil Kumble's future as India coach. The......

Will BCCI look into issues raised by Guha?

The transparency panel said it expects the cricket controlling body to get fully transparent in all its functions Batting for larger transparency, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has urged......

Dravid, Zaheer did not deserve this public humiliation: Guha

'The shameful treatment of Anil Kumble has now been compounded by the cavalier treatment of Zaheer Khan and Rahul Dravid.' Former member of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrator......

Guha's bombshell questions Kohli, Dhoni, Dravid, Ganguly, Gavaskar

Historian's resignation letter reveals that Kumble-Kohli rift is a reality. Indian cricket's 'superstar culture', unaddressed conflict of interest issues and the Board of Control for Cricket in......