Occasional Non-Technical Articles and Reviews
Articles
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A Larger Freedom
Indian Express, 7 December 2018
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100 Years of Champaran and a Forgotten Figure
EPW Web Exclusives, 12 April 2017
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Demonetisation and the Lessons of History
The Wire, 5 January 2017
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Why 'Make For India' matters ... The Wire, 2 October 2015
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The Bitter History of Modern Sugar The Wire, 22 September 2015. Kannada version
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Follow the Money The Wire, 6 August 2015
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Wrestling with the Snake Outlook Web, 10 April 2014
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ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬಡತನ ಮತ್ತು ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು... Vijay Karnataka, 27 January 2013
Poverty and Plenty in Bangalore
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Hazare and India's Democracy Foreign Affairs website, 25 August 2011
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Threads of Freedom Deccan Chronicle, 01 August 2011
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The Man and the Movement The Caravan, May 2011
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Mahatma Gandhi and American Discontents
The Telegraph, 05 April 2011
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The More Things Change ...
Outlook web, 28 October 2010
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A Limited 'Tribute' to an Unlimited Legacy
India Together, 07 October 2009
Articles 10-17 co-authored with Deepak Malghan
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Nano and its Discontents Tehelka web, 18 April 2009
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Gandhi on the Auction Block Outlook web, 17 March 2009
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The Use and Abuse of Swadeshi Outlook web, 04 March 2009
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Price of Freedom Outlook web, 15 August 2008
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Dirt and Dignity
Hindu, 29 June 2008 as 'Forgotten Insights';
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The Other 9/11;
Hindu, 10 September 2006
- Quake Notes from the Rann;
India Together, 26 January 2006
A short version appeared as Living on the Edge;
Hindu, 22 January 2006
- Building a Creative Freedom : J C Kumarappa and his Economic
Philosophy; with Deepak Malghan
Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 40 no. 52 Dec 24, 2005
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Remembering Dandi;
Hindu, 6 March 2005
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The 'Invention of Tradition' in Indian Food;
Outlook Web, 5 March 2004
Outlook-Picador India Nonfiction Competition shortlist
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My Monsoons; Himal, August 2003
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Reprise of a Shameful Legacy; Outlook Web, 11 July 2003
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What Manner of Men; Hindu,
04 Jan &
11 Jan 2003
Book Reviews
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A Palimpsest for Development
Thinking Small : The United States and the Lure of Community Development by Daniel Immerwahr
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The Prophet and the Statesman
Together They Fought : Gandhi-Nehru Correspondence 1921-1948, edited by Uma Iyengar and Lalitha Zackariah
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A Contested Legacy
Nehru : The Invention of India by Shashi Tharoor
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A Greatness of his Own
The Fire and the Rose by Narayan Desai (Biography of Mahadev Desai)
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Home Truths about Market Fundamentalism
Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
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An August Dispute : The Gandhi-Tagore Debates
The Mahatma and the Poet : Letters and Debates between Gandhi and
Tagore 1915-1941 compiled and edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
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The Great Betrayal
Words Like Freedom : Memoirs of an Impoverished Indian Family, 1947-97 by Siddharth Dube
Film Review
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Art in the Absence of Reality
A review of the film "Lagaan"