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Twilight Whispers
For reasons inexplicable, I’ve always found the Bengali word for twilight mellifluous, intriguing. It’s called ‘godhuli’. The love for the word is what caused me to name the book what I did. The stories are reflective. Some mystery, a few happy, a few sad. In short, a sum total of life. Why ‘twilight’ you may ask I’ve noticed it’s the time when thoughts take seed and thereafter becomes a story. The myriad colours in the sky are what depicts ‘life’ for me. The protagonists are women. Some may reflect me, my life. I’ll let you decide. In some, you may feel you’re reading about yourself. The stories which leave you searching for an answer, are perhaps left the way they have been left, for you to interpret.
Liberal Studies
The Liberal Studies journal is a trans-disciplinary bi-annual journal of the School of Liberal Studies, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, INDIA. Each issue of the journal amalgamates research articles, expert opinions, and book reviews on various strands with an endeavor to inquire the contemporary world concerns. Vol. 1, Issue. 2, July-December, 2016 ISSN 2688-9374 (Online) ISSN 2455-9857 (Print) OCLC No: 1119390574
The Gentle Colossus
Compelling, incisive and wonderfully readable. Whether writing about politics or culture, whether profiling individuals or analyzing a social trend, Ramachandra Guha displays a masterly touch, confirming his standing as India’s most admired historian and public intellectual.
Bagha Jatin
“We shall die to awaken the nation” – Bagha Jatin Jatindranath Mukherjee, famously known as BAGHA JATIN, was born at a time when Indian nationalism was starting to spread it wings through the nation. An advocate of armed revolution against the British in India, he was a man with extraordinary courage. From working within the folds of the British government for inside information, to being the mastermind behind importing weapons to aid the revolution; from organising bomb making workshops, to training the youth in physical strength – Jatin was a man of many talents. While his ideas impressed his fellow comrades, his valour and physical strength struck fear and awe among the British so...
Gandhi Before India
The first volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century, from the great historian Ramachandra Guha The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. In this fascinating new biography Ramachandra Guha allows us to understand the personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi as never before. Showing that Gandhi's ideas were fundamentally shaped before his return to India in 1915, Gandhi Before India is the extraordinarily vivid portrait of the formative years he spent in England and South Africa, where he developed the techniques that would undermine and ultimately destroy the British Empire. Ramachandra...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.
The Past and Future of the Indian Left
In a country plagued by a massive income disparity and widespread corruption, communism is an experiment which cannot lead to worse outcomes than what already exists. It isn't so surprising then that the Marxist ideology and its ideas of equal privilege have attracted a fair amount of traction in India. However, in 2011, when the Communist Party of India lost in Kerala, it took with it the seed of Marxist thought and influence in the country. In The Past and Future of the Indian Left, Ramachandra Guha examines the Marxist ideology and talks about what it means for India by deeming it as a religious doctrine having scriptures and deities, going into the details of how the Communist party of India gained power in the country.
Gandhi
While petitioning for rights for Indians in Transvaal, Gandhi and his fellow petitioners did not want to overthrow, or even challenge the European rule. They were asking for the safeguarding of existing and previously guaranteed rights of residence, trade and travel for Indians. To this effect, Gandhi would even travel to England again, fighting for his fellow immigrant countrymen at every opportunity. However, it was evident that things were no longer as peaceful as they once were and the Europeans were losing their patience. Gandhi: A Lobbyist in London by Ramachandra Guha is a revelation of Gandhi's efforts and determination to fight for his people even as he himself was an immigrant in a foreign land. Read on.
The Master’s Plan
IMAGINATION shall give you power,’ He said to his people. They imagined themselves to be more powerful than him He realised that his master plan failed when his people used him, yet ignored him. He thought it was a master plan ¬– a plan that would improve lives of his people and at the same time establish himself as the ‘all powerful’ – The Master. However, he did not expect his master plan to make his people as dangerously ambitious as himself and imitate his own ways. His plan creates a chaotic and an undesirable world. And instead of being seen by his people as powerful, they use him for their personal gains and then ignore him. He feels cheated. He is determined to get his wor...
Life with a Duchess
Compelling, incisive and wonderfully readable. Whether writing about politics or culture, whether profiling individuals or analyzing a social trend, Ramachandra Guha displays a masterly touch, confirming his standing as India’s most admired historian and public intellectual.
