Column

A historian's view

58 articles · 2004–2013

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  1. When riots are tools, where does secularism stand?

    Interview · Law and Order · Peace · 23 October 2013 · 6 responses

  2. The Telangana prophecy: Will more states mean more conflict?

    Interview · Government · History · 2 September 2013 · 5 responses

  3. A Prime Minister in peril

    Opinion · Society · 11 January 2012 · 10 responses

  4. Degrading democracy

    Opinion · Society · 15 December 2011

  5. The question of English

    Opinion · Caste · Curricula · 6 November 2011 · 5 responses

  6. A man to match his mountains

    Opinion · Forests · 25 September 2011

  7. Ban the ban

    Opinion · Society · 30 July 2011

  8. Power women

    Opinion · Society · 9 May 2011 · 6 responses

  9. The lessons of Bihar

    Opinion · Society · Bihar · 6 December 2010 · 5 responses

  10. The great unmentionable

    Opinion · History · 4 April 2010 · 16 responses

  11. A serpent in paradise

    Opinion · Education · Justice System · 14 February 2010

  12. Man with a vision

    Opinion · History · 24 January 2010

  13. Social banditry

    Opinion · Society · 22 December 2009

  14. Our atom state

    Opinion · Energy · 6 December 2009

  15. The honest leftist

    Opinion · Society · Andhra Pradesh · 15 November 2009

  16. The beauty of compromise

    Opinion · Society · 10 October 2009 · 14 responses

  17. Superpower fantasies

    Opinion · Society · 13 September 2009 · 6 responses

  18. The absent celebrant

    Opinion · History · 16 August 2009

  19. The chancellors' vice

    Opinion · Caste · Education · 4 July 2009 · 8 responses

  20. Questions of policy

    Opinion · Government · 12 June 2009

  21. Its own greatest enemy

    Opinion · History · 10 May 2009 · 13 responses

  22. With a past to honour

    Opinion · History · 12 April 2009 · 13 responses

  23. Searching for Charlie

    Opinion · History · 7 March 2009

  24. Towards positive change

    Opinion · Elections · 4 February 2009 · 6 responses

  25. The sensitive sociologist

    Opinion · Caste · Culture · 3 January 2009

  26. Who fits the bill?

    Opinion · Society · 23 November 2008 · 5 responses

  27. The Hindu Jinnah?

    Opinion · Society · 15 October 2008 · 12 responses

  28. A forgotten Bengali hero

    Opinion · Elections · West Bengal · 28 September 2008

  29. Like father, like son

    Opinion · Society · 3 August 2008

  30. Borderland travails

    Opinion · Society · 1 July 2008

  31. Watching the watchdog

    Opinion · Society · 1 June 2008 · 8 responses

  32. The beauty of compromise

    Opinion · Peace · 2 May 2008 · 5 responses

  33. A creeping insularity

    Opinion · Education · West Bengal · 16 April 2008

  34. The crowded centre

    Opinion · Society · 19 February 2008 · 6 responses

  35. Selectively virtuous

    Opinion · Society · West Bengal · 9 December 2007 · 5 responses

  36. Kabul then, Myanmar now

    Opinion · Society · 24 November 2007

  37. Young, male and deadly

    Opinion · Society · 22 July 2007

  38. A certain ruthlessness

    Opinion · Society · 29 May 2007

  39. Patriot, not chauvinist

    Opinion · Society · 12 May 2007

  40. Holding the centre

    Opinion · History · 17 March 2007

  41. Pronounced guilty

    Opinion · History · 17 March 2007

  42. The other revolution of 1857

    Opinion · Education · 18 February 2007

  43. Feeling left out

    Opinion · Society · 23 January 2007

  44. A managed media

    Opinion · Society · 20 May 2006

  45. Classy cast of mind

    Opinion · Caste · 2 May 2006 · 7 responses

  46. Naturally allied

    Opinion · Society · 5 March 2006

  47. A divided city

    Opinion · Society · Karnataka · 25 December 2005

  48. Ecology for the people

    Opinion · Adivasis · Forests · 14 November 2005

  49. Good practice, bad theory

    Opinion · History · 28 July 2005

  50. Layers of history

    Opinion · History · 2 July 2005

  51. Stung by the West

    Opinion · Society · 5 April 2005

  52. Not that simple

    Opinion · Society · 6 February 2005

  53. Believers in free air

    Opinion · Society · 1 October 2004

  54. Freeing our heroes

    Opinion · Society · 1 October 2004

  55. Why India survives

    Opinion · Society · 1 October 2004

  56. Entering the environment

    Opinion · Environment · 1 September 2004

  57. The sociology of suicide

    Opinion · Society · 1 August 2004

  58. New aspirations

    Opinion · Girls' Education · 1 July 2004