In the narration of India's history South India's rich past is largely neglected. The story of India in our text books and treatises is by and large a story of the Aryavarta or the Indo-Gangetic plain. The story of the East, particularly the Northeast, meets the same fate at the hands of both Indian and Foreign, Western historians. Parakala Prabhakar and Mohan Guruswamy discuss various issues related to this sorry state of the Indian history research agenda. Each region has a story to tell. Each state should have it own archeological survey..
Idea of India
Ramachandra Guha: 50 books that tell the story of 75 years of Indian independence https://amp.scroll.in/article/1032539/ramachandra-guha-50-books-that-tell-the-story-of-75-years-of-indian-independence
From Granville Austin’s ‘The Indian Constitution’ to Malika Amar Shaikh’s ‘I Want to Destroy Myself’, a list of essential reading.
Ramachandra Guha
Sep 11, 2022 ·
Ramachandra Guha: At 75, India is free – but its citizens are still fighting for many rights https://scroll.in/article/1030393/ramachandra-guha-at-75-india-is-free-but-its-citizens-are-still-fighting-for-many-rights
The world is looking at India – though not necessarily looking up to India.
Ramachandra Guha
Aug 14, 2022
Why Neglect South India's History? || Deccan Dialogues 03 || Parakala Prabhakar & Mohan Guruswamy Sep 1, 2022 Parakala Prabhakar
Congress slams Modi, says Gujarat was prosperous long before he became CM https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/congress-slams-modi-says-gujarat-was-prosperous-long-before-he-became-cm "PM claims there's a plot to defame Gujarat. The truth, which he is incapable of saying, is that long before he became CM, Gujarat had already emerged as an economic powerhouse due to its spirit of enterprise." Public sector investments by Congress governments catalysed Gujarat's growth, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said
"Public sector investments by INC govts catalysed the state's growth," he tweeted.
"India & USA are under the gravest threat to their Democracies" | Suketu Mehta Aug 23, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYUHG7lKFI
Suketu Mehta speaks to Barkha Dutt about the country of his birth, the free speech debate. He is among the 100 writers to come together under PEN-America to write about India at 75, an anthology of essays that examine where the country stands more than 7 decades after independence.
‘As goes India, so goes democracy’ https://scroll.in/article/1030219/suketu-mehta-as-goes-india-so-goes-democracy Aug 15, 2022
To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt. people of other religions are actively harassed, even lynched on the streets; their freedom to practice their religion in their own way is circumscribed. And when they protest, they are jailed and their houses bulldozed. Most worrying, much of the judiciary seems to be sympathetic to the Hindu nationalist agenda, and issues its verdicts accordingly.
When countries safeguard the rights of their minorities, they also safeguard, as a happy side effect, the rights and wellbeing of their majorities. If a judiciary forbids discrimination against, say, Muslims, it is also much more likely to forbid discrimination against, say, LGBTQ+ people. The obverse is also true: when they do not safeguard the rights of their minorities, every other citizen’s rights are in peril.
Romila Thapar—I don't like Modi's India, it's too Narrow & Limited; History won’t be Kind to Him https://youtu.be/x65z6USSfPQ?t=68 Aug 10, 2022 In an interview about how she views the last 75 years of India’s independence and what sort of country India has become, someone who is considered our foremost historian, Romila Thapar, has said she doesn’t like Modi’s India. Explaining why, she said it’s too narrow and too limited.