Raghu Karnad

@jinoyjosep Thanks so much Jinoy

Came across a truly insightful and beautifully crafted interview-feature with Romila Thapar, by Raghu Karnad for Psyche magazine. psyche.co/portraits/romi…

"In a country searching for the best use of its freedom, she found the best use of her own." Raghu Karnad on Romila Thapar. psyche.co/portraits/romi…

Read Raghu Karnad’s profile on Romila Thapar here: psyche.co/portraits/romi…

@soutikBBC @saliltripathi @rkarnad Wonderful to read an article of this calibre and depth. Great detail though I’d have liked to know what she finally said in her school speech

@AsavariSingh @soutikBBC @saliltripathi So would I! Maybe it will be in her upcoming memoir

‘Now, in old age, I do regret not having a child,’ Romila Thapar said. ‘I don’t regret not having a formal husband. I do regret not having a child – I would love to have a sort of continuity.’ Must-read profile of the celebrated academic by @rkarnad. psyche.co/portraits/romi…

"Thapar, alone on an upper balcony, looking out over the monastery and the land, felt an uncanny sensation: the ‘sweep of past centuries’ made palpable around her." psyche.co/portraits/romi…

Looking for Indraprastha Wonderful piece on memory, forgetting and the rewriting of history @rkarnad lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

‘The footage of Modi’s dive, however, only shows the submerged prime minister; nothing of the submerged city.’ Raghu Karnad on the relationship between archaeology and nationalism. granta.com/under-the-ruin…

@BasuAshis @soutikBBC Thank you!

@soutikBBC @rkarnad Superb piece @rkarnad !

“The question of dissent sounds through many parts of her life: as a line of scholarly enquiry; as a personal principle and orientation in public; and as a habit to encourage in younger Indians, many of whom won’t remember the more expansive, voluble country that India was prior to 2014. Today it is a more brittle society, trained to exalt a mythical past of piety, conformity and order. To claim a tradition of dissent here is an act of dissent in itself.” @rkarnad on Dr. Romila Thapar psyche.co/portraits/romi…

This is such a great profile of the historian Romila Thapar by @rkarnad psyche.co/portraits/romi…

Romila Thapar, doyenne and dissenter. Above all, a great historian and a life well lived. @rkarnad psyche.co/portraits/romi…

There's so much in this marvelous profile of Romila Thapar by @rkarnad. It felt like reading about independent India itself. Just beautiful. psyche.co/portraits/romi…

what a feature. @rkarnad i had not read your books before but now i’m game. this beautiful profile of professor romila thappar for the psyche is clean and superbly written. psyche.co/portraits/romi…

So beautifully written. @rkarnad Loved it. Whether you agree or disagree with her history what an incredible woman! The illustrations are lovely too. I miss when we could buy magazines. This is the kind of piece that needs one.

@rkarnad’s beautiful piece on RT.

‘Now, in old age, I do regret not having a child...I don’t regret not having a formal husband. I do regret not having a child – I would love to have a sort of continuity.’ A warm and intense portrait of our finest historian by @rkarnad psyche.co/portraits/romi… via @psyche_the_mag

If you read one thing today make it this by the wonderful @rkarnad on our national treasure Romila Thapar