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IMO another factor responsible for the decline in History writing is the rise of writers like Chetan Bhagat etc. The continuous rise in the sales of books by such authors can be reason enough for others to follow suit instead of writing something about India. Today I was pleasantly surprised when I read that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the 2nd highest selling foreign author in China - http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-04/the-foreign-authors-china-loves - I don't see why such authors cannot be successful in India. BTW have yo read Gurcharan Das?
lol..Yaar are you putting a sendh in my book chest. :giggle: Yeah I have read Gurcharan Das. His India Unbound was one of the books I can think of. He often puts more interesting point. There is a case he made for banias and Gujratis making money by trading when trading was looked down upon by rest of the country. You are right about many writers being a Nehru fan. What can you say? Nehru was a great man :--D I read Sunday Guardian every now and then, mostly for MJ Akbar only. MJ Akbar got me hooked to Asian Age, which also had some good tabloid stuff back then. I have a lot of time for MJ Akbar's writings :agree:
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this is not a Newslaundry interview but his interview was posted here few days back so I'm posting this here: Rahul’s exit will be a ‘good thing for democracy’, historian Ramchandra Guha says

In the wake of his latest book Patriots and Partisans, noted historian Ramchandra Guha spoke to John Cheeran of the danger posed to the nation's liberal polity as much by thoughtless consensus as chauvinism. Invariably, cricket too came up. Gujarat goes to the polls — final phase — tomorrow. What are the chances of BJP looking beyond Hindutva? This looks unlikely. Consider how Narendra Modi, considered their leading prime ministerial candidate, has not given a single ticket to a Muslim candidate for the Gujarat state elections. India now has a new political party. Aam Aadmi Party. You had hoped for the emergence of a new party so that there would be an alternative for identity politics. Is AAP going to be the gamechanger? Highly unlikely. It may have some impact in the Delhi Assembly elections, but if it is to win seats in the next General Elections it has a lot of hard work ahead. It may be wise and prudent for the AAP to wait until 2019 to fight an all-India electoral battle, spending the time in-between building state units and coalitions with civil society groups. Do you expect that the Congress would ever make itself free from the clutches of Gandhi dynasty? This can only happen if the party does so badly in the next general elections that Rahul Gandhi is either dumped or retires from politics. But that would be a good thing for the Congress, and for Indian democracy. Do you think PM Manmohan Singh would have done better had he listened to Dharma Kumar's advice — fight the liberal corner vigorously? He should indeed have been more vigorous and assertive in his job. In his first term, he should have played a more active role in assigning Cabinet posts. Arjun Singh as education minister and Shivraj Patil as home minister were disastrous choices — he should have had better people in those posts. And he should have certainly fought a Lok Sabha seat the second time around. That would have given him more authority and allowed him to formulate more focused policies. He gave in too easily to Congress chamchagiri. Does Shastri fascinate you as a historian? The counterfactual question on Shastri — is it mere kite flying or do you believe that a long innings by Shastri would have left India a better place? Shastri was a remarkable man and an under-rated prime minister — his early death was indeed a great loss to India. Which is the next original book you are working on? Not an anthology, not a collection of essays ... a biography of Shastri? I am now completing a book on Gandhi's less known South African period, based on research into previously unknown sources and archives spread across four continents. You are the finest cricket writer in India. Are you planning another book on cricket? Not in the short term, since after I finish my current project I am committed to writing a book on Gandhi's Indian years. If I live long enough, I hope one day to write a memoir of my life as a cricket fan, recounting stories, incidents, controversies, matches that I have seen or heard talked about. I have a working title: 'Growing Old With Cricket'. Does it make you sad and nostalgic that in Indian cricket, with the departure of Rahul Dravid, the tradition of innings building may have been lost? Chetan Pujara is a fine successor to Dravid, since he has shown the ability to craft and sustain an innings. We don't know yet how he will perform overseas, and he may yet be destroyed by IPL. What is more worrying is that there are no successors to Laxman, Sehwag, and Tendulkar. Do fans have a right to tell a cricketer that "thank you and it's time to leave?" No, they don't. Only the player must and should decide.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rahuls-exit-will-be-a-good-thing-for-democracy-historian-Ramchandra-Guha-says/articleshow/17640374.cms the last question is quite relevant to some topics being discussed in the Cricket Talk section currently...
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Good one. whenever I saw Ranganath in Kannada channels I thought he just shouts and too emotional , but excellent interview :hatsoff:
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