Ramachandra Guha's book 'India After Gandhi'

An excellent book is coming out and am dying to read it.  Ram Guha is a brilliant historian/ academican/ scholar/ journalist/ writer/ intellectual. Also a engaging style of writing. I first read his book A Corner of a Foreign Field and loved the integration of politics, society, caste issues, history and cricket. The story was fascinating and rich. Then a journalist with the Financial Times said that I must read the the book on anthropologist Verrier Elwyn who worked in the tribal belts of Chattisgarh. That book was insanely brilliant. I bummed it from my friends property in Anant Van. I met Ram Guha in Bangalore and I wanted recommendations and he suggested his two books of essays. Those are treasures to be read again and again. I love Ram Guha is because he brings History alive with scholarship. There is his opinion but always in the fringe.

I cant wait to read his new book. He asked me to come for the launch in Bombay but I will be away in Vietnam.  Anyway any one keen to understand the path that INDIA has taken since 1947 must read the book.

The other reason  I relish his writing is on Hindustani Art music whihc I have featured in my previous posts, his deep affection for the Gandhi Nehru ideal.

Go buy the book