Raining in Colombo! Please send some rain here ⁦Namini Wijedasa⁩

That’s my beloved mentor and life long teacher Prof. Uma Chakravarti. What a power house. At 84 she is screening her documentary, launching her new book, giving incredible talks, and singing with students! ❤️🌟

For history and literature buffs in Coimbatore: I'll be speaking on 'The Local and the Universal in Mahatma Gandhi' at Ganga Hospital tomorrow, 13th April, 5 pm onwards.

My latest interview with Karan Thapar

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Dr Saraswathy Ganapathy, founder of The Belaku Trust, donated a large parcel of forested land to NCBS for ecological research. This land, which is near the Western Ghats will be used to set up a field station for long-term studies on climate change & conservation research (1/6)

Terrible. This plague, where judges, both sitting and freshly retired give interviews, has to be stopped. A populist judge can never dispense justice which maybe unpopular. Very dangerous for the institution. Instead of this PR, could the Chief Justice of India not have shown us…

‘Will Modi visit us if we vote?’: Why this election means little for Manipur’s displaced scroll.in/article/106648… via Scroll.in

Ramachandra Guha writes: As chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi claimed to believe in “co-operative federalism”.
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As prime minister, he has sought to savagely curtail the rights and responsibilities of states.

#NarendraModi #HumanRights

This is what BJP’s own MLA had said. Listen. On #Manipur

Timely intervention by #GujaratiFunda on timely intervention by Modi.
जानिए, मणिपुर के अलावा और भी क्या क्या बचाया है मोदी ने समय पर हस्तक्षेप से।

Thread: After more than a year of work, we have now launched dataforindia.com, a public platform that seeks to expand access to Indian data for everyone, and deepen the understanding of the country that can come from this data

.Ramachandra Guha: What Bangalore’s Chinnaswamy Stadium must do to amend a long-time injustice
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A memoir of a long-term relationship between a writer and editor beautifully explores the bonds that develop over decades and how professional ties can evolve into lasting friendships. Vivek Kaul on Ramachandra Guha's latest published by juggernautbooks
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Urvish Kothari as his sparkling best. And it’s good to see Charlie bhai and Mohan bhai back behind him too.

Siddaramaiah ⁦CM of Karnataka⁩ asks KSCA to name stands at Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy stadium after three Karnataka greats Gundappa Vishwanath, EAS Prasanna & BS Chandrashekhar. ⁦Ramachandra Guha⁩ has written a letter to Siddaramaiah seeking his intervention in this. #Cricket

For all fans and followers of Karnataka cricket, this promises to be a very special evening tomorrow. Don’t miss it in Bengaluru! Ramachandra Guha (50 years since the famous win over Mumbai.. that Kannadiga friends still talk about it is another story.. it was truly a breakthrough…

It was not a namaz row, it was an attack on foreign students by right wing goons in their hostel.

Searching for solace: A requiem for Rizwan scroll.in/article/106594… via Scroll.in

Cricket fans in Bengaluru: Do join this celebration of the 50th anniversary of Karnataka’s first Ranji Trophy triumph. The great Erapalli Prasanna, captain of that team, will be among the speakers. Tomorrow, 9th April, 630 pm onwards, at the Bangalore International Centre.