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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Around 1980, Ramachandra Guha initiated an argument with the philosopher Ramachandra ‘Ramu’ Gandhi, about the latter’s grandfather. He wanted to strip Mahatma Gandhi of his spiritual connotations, and see him in a purely secular way. However, Ramu did not agree with his beliefs, stating that the Mahatma without faith was no longer the Mahatma.

In Gandhi’s Faith and Ours, Guha delves deeper into Gandhi’s status as a Hindu, his ideologies and beliefs, his tolerance of other faiths and the source to his view that that all men are born equal with references to works by J.T.F. Jordens and others.

Read on to discover the reasons behind the complete reversal in Guha’s understanding of the Mahatma and to know more about how Gandhi’s faith extended beyond his own existence and still plays a role in religious ideologies of today.

The Great Lokpal Debate of 2011 is something that ought to go down in Indian history. The debate was centred around two primary participants: Former professor and India’s most educated prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and Anna Hazare, the ex-army jawan, who had quickly become the people’s hero having single-handedly inspired the country to care about current events. Within a year of assuming his second term in office, Singh was bogged down by conspiracies and was suspected of having been complicit in the series of scams unearthed around this time. In contrast, Hazare was a man who exuded simplicity, and appeared to be everything the prime minister was not. What happens when such polar opposites are pitted against each other?

Read as Ramachandra Guha investigates how it all started and give a perspective of this conflict.