Ramachandra Guha

From Rabindranath Tagore's engagement with nature at Santiniketan to JC Kumarappa's rural renewal, and from Patrick Geddes' neotechnic cities to Union Minister KM Munshi's Vana Mahotsava—Ramachandra Guha gives brief biographies of 10 people who thought about different aspects of human-nature interactions in India.

Pratik Gandhi shares BTS stills with 'Harry Potter' actor Tom Felton on 'Gandhi' sets

BTS stills of 'Gandhi': Actor Pratik Gandhi has shared some BTS photographs with Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in 'Harry Potter', from the sets of Hansal Mehta's upcoming web-series 'Gandhi', an adaptation of Ramachandra Guha's biographies on Mahatma Gandhi.

The Cooking of Books Review: Ramachandra Guha’s striking memoir of a long-distance relationship between a writer and his editor

With self-deprecating frankness, Guha details his growth as a writer in the hands of his editor Rukun Advani. The memoir, a rich mine for budding writers, looks back at a vanished pre-internet publishing world, where books were celebrated more than authors.

Ram Guha's 'India before Gandhi' to soon be a biopic starring Pratik Gandhi

Actor Pratik Gandhi will be playing the role of Mahatma Gandhi.

Did Nehru initially exclude Patel from his Cabinet? S Jaishankar and Ramachandra Guha engage in Twitter spat on claim

The social media row started over a book claiming that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had initially excluded Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel from his Cabinet.

Centre scared of historian, says Mamata Banerjee on detention of Ramachandra Guha

Extending her solidarity with Guha and other agitators who were detained on Thursday morning, Banerjee said the Centre was scared of one of India's "most accomplished" historians.

Citizenship Act protest: Historian Ramachandra Guha detained by police in Bengaluru

Protesters had gathered at the Town Hall in the state capital despite Section 144 in place

Want to make your investment work? Ask investigative writers

Like investigative journalists, investors too often run  into harsh realities. The sooner we realise it, the better.

Modi set to become India's third most successful PM: Ramachandra Guha

Speaking at the ongoing London School of Economics (LSE) India Summit 2017 here, 58-year-old Guha said Modi's "authority" and "Pan-Indian vision" put him on the same pedestal as that of Nehru and his daughter Indira.

Congress has no future: Ramachandra Guha

Watch the interview of Ramachandra Guha Writer & Historian with Ronojoy Banerjee on CNBC-TV18, in which he shared his views on Congress party's future and whole host of political issues.

Two 50s in 40 test matches and yet Rahul Gandhi is captain: Guha

“In the last 12 years, Rahul Gandhi has campaigned in three Lok Sabha and may be 30-40 Assembly elections. They are like Test matches. If you ask me, he has scored just two 50s, a couple of 10 and 20s and many zeroes. You can‘t make him captain of the team," says Guha.

Why even Guha has had to rewrite the Nehru-Patel history

Is India's robust secularism the result of Nehru's tireless work or evidence of a 5,000-year Hindu-Buddhist-Jain civilisational process that did not privilege any god and gave every individual a right to choose his route to god? In the Hindu scheme of things, you can choose your form of worship, or even remain a disbeliever.

Lessons in Marketing Excellence: IIM-Calcutta

In season 1 IIM-Calcutta qualified to the finals but lost the battle to NITIE and finally stood third. In season 2 the institute dropped down to the 11th place but regained some ground by coming 6th in season 3. Season 4 saw IIM-Calcutta fall to the 10th position in the leader board. Will season 5 prove different for them? Let's wait and watch.

Curtain raiser: Network18 hosts India Day @ Oxford

Post financial crisis, there's more skepticism. Economy seems to be in bad shape. Newspapers bring stories of scandals and scaling down more often than they bring stories of triumph or, as they once did, triumphalism. Sunrise sectors such as software and telecom have turned cautious, pessimistic and talk about hiring freeze and even lay-offs.

Reassert the liberal centre with History's light: Guha

In this edition of CNBC-TV18‘s Beautiful People, Ramachandra Guha, academician, writer, historian and social commentator has spent a considerable amount of time and energy contributing to contemporary public debate

Lokpal Bill row: Is the PM's proposal too little, too late?

Historian and commentator Ramachandra Guha; co-convener of the national campaign for people’s right to information Nikhil Dey and the Editor-In-Chief of Outlook, Vinod Mehta argue out the issue of the Lokpal Bill with CNBC-TV18's Karan Thappar.

The Oxford India Day 2011: Celebrating 400 year old ties

Being in season at Oxford was marked with an India Day at Oxford that celebrated these associations and prepared to build more.

CVC fiasco: Has PM's image been badly damaged?

Many people believe, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's image and credibility has been badly damaged by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) fiasco as well as his somewhat reluctant statement in parliament yesterday. CNBC-TV18's Karan Thapar discusses the PM's stature and his explanation in the parliament with the eminent panelists.