Archive for August, 2010
Real India: A historian’s cautions on "the Indian Century"
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with the Ramachandra Guha. (58 minutes, 28 mb mp3)
BANGALORE — Ramachandra Guha, the provocative, critical historian of India After Gandhi, has vitality and charisma to match his country’s. Writing and talking with fire-hose force, he’s come to mirror India’s sense of it’s 63-year-old self. For all …
Real India: a land soon without tigers, and maybe orchids
Boom and Doom in the Real India: environmental vigilante Suprabha Seshen links the end of tigers (and maybe orchids) with the rise of consumerism and a new middle-class prosperity in India.
