Well known historian and biographer Ramachandra Guha will be delivering a public lecture on ‘Challenges to Social Well-being in India Today’ in Goa on April 11.
Goa University Visiting Research Professors Programme D D Kosambi Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies in association with Goa University Alumni Association is hosting the public lecture, which will be held on April 11 at 5 p.m. at the Conference Hall, Main building, Goa University.
The talk will be chaired by Professor Madhav Gadgil, DD Kosambi Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies, Goa University.
Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer based in Bangalore. He has taught at the universities of Yale and Stanford, held the Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, and been the Indo-American Community Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In the academic year 2011-2 he served as the Philippe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.
Guha’s books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods (University of California Press, 1989), and an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, 2002). ‘India after Gandhi’ (Macmillan/Ecco Press, 2007) was chosen as a book of the year by the Economist, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out, and few other publications. His most recent book is Gandhi before India (Knopf, 2014), which was chosen as a notable book of the year by the New York Times.
Apart from his books, Guha also writes a syndicated column that appears in six languages in newspapers with a combined readership of some twenty million. Guha’s books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages.The talk is open to all.
Talk by Ramachandra Guha
Goa University
April 11 at 5pm
