Ramchandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha is a well-regarded and influential writer, apart from being a historian. He is also regarded as a public intellectual. He is best known as a biographer-historian and cricket writer. His interests include environmental, social, political and cricket history.
Ramachandra Guha actively addresses all the environmental and social issues in his work. His humility is underlined by his simplicity. He once said, “"I am not an 'activist', and nor do I want to be called an 'environmentalist'. I write about topics and themes which I consider important and relevant to my society, and try to write accessibly and for a general audience as well as for scholars. I have, over the past twenty years, also kept in contact with groups working on environmental and in particular forest issues in different parts of India. Perhaps that makes me a 'public intellectual', but I would never claim to be an activist."
Ramachandra Guha has also shown a lot of veneration towards Nehru in all his works. He calls himself a ‘Nehruvian Indian’ and strongly supports the ideology of Nehru. This can be illustrated in the Anita Nair’s essay on Ramachandra Guha. Where she writes this:
"Do you have a dream?" I asked Guha. "Something that makes you waits for the dawn every evening...or is that too romantic a notion?"
“Not really," he says. "Though I have plenty of nightmares, mostly about the destruction of the Gandhi-Nehru vision of India by the corrupt and communalist leaders of today." My piecing together of Guha is almost complete when he does something so quixotic [in a lovely way that is] that makes me think that I'm back where I was when I set out to slot Guha.
Biographical Sketch
Ramachandra Guha, a tamilian Brahmin, was born on 29 April 1958 at Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand where his father Ram Das Guha worked at the Forest Research Institute. Ramachandra Guha studied at The Doon School and St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He graduated in Economics with a BA in 1977
Ramachandra Guha is a well-regarded and influential writer, apart from being a historian. He is also regarded as a public intellectual. He is best known as a biographer-historian and cricket writer. His interests include environmental, social, political and cricket history.
Ramachandra Guha actively addresses all the environmental and social issues in his work. His humility is underlined by his simplicity. He once said, “"I am not an 'activist', and nor do I want to be called an 'environmentalist'. I write about topics and themes which I consider important and relevant to my society, and try to write accessibly and for a general audience as well as for scholars. I have, over the past twenty years, also kept in contact with groups working on environmental and in particular forest issues in different parts of India. Perhaps that makes me a 'public intellectual', but I would never claim to be an activist."
Ramachandra Guha has also shown a lot of veneration towards Nehru in all his works. He calls himself a ‘Nehruvian Indian’ and strongly supports the ideology of Nehru. This can be illustrated in the Anita Nair’s essay on Ramachandra Guha. Where she writes this:
"Do you have a dream?" I asked Guha. "Something that makes you waits for the dawn every evening...or is that too romantic a notion?"
“Not really," he says. "Though I have plenty of nightmares, mostly about the destruction of the Gandhi-Nehru vision of India by the corrupt and communalist leaders of today." My piecing together of Guha is almost complete when he does something so quixotic [in a lovely way that is] that makes me think that I'm back where I was when I set out to slot Guha.
Biographical Sketch
Ramachandra Guha, a tamilian Brahmin, was born on 29 April 1958 at Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand where his father Ram Das Guha worked at the Forest Research Institute. Ramachandra Guha studied at The Doon School and St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He graduated in Economics with a BA in 1977