Watch: Historian Ramachandra Guha on the joy of foraging through libraries, archives for information
At a lecture for the Library & Information Science Academy, Guha talks about his decades-long experiences as a historian.
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1Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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2Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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3How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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4A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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5Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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6Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain
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7Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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8Bhubaneswar municipal official dragged out of office and assaulted, told to apologise to BJP leader
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9‘Heads of State’ review: An agreeably preposterous geopolitical buddy comedy
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10Stephen Alter’s novel brings to life an older version of Rudyard Kipling’s young hero, Kim, as a spy
