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A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West.

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Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work.
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A Life That Served a Purpose
In a world chasing fleeting applause, some souls choose the long, quiet road of service. Today, welfare economist Jean Drèze has been honoured with a global award for his profound research on poverty and inequality in India.

Born in Belgium, he made India his home and its people his purpose. With a scholar’s rigour and a revolutionary’s heart, he stood beside the forgotten—documenting their struggles, amplifying their voices, and shaping policies that reached millions.

His tireless advocacy helped birth two landmark legislations that still stand as lifelines: the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which offered dignity through work to the rural poor, and the National Food Security Act, which sought to ensure no one sleeps hungry in a land of plenty.

This is not just an award. It is recognition of a life lived in radical empathy. Of choosing dusty villages over ivory towers. Of measuring success not in citations or comfort, but in the quiet lifting of human suffering.

Jean Drèze reminds us that the highest calling is to use one’s intellect, privilege, and time in the service of those who have the least.

In an age of cynicism, his journey is a living ode:
To knowledge that heals. To scholarship that serves. To a life that mattered.

Congratulations and Thank You Professor Drèze.
India is better because you walked among us.
May your example inspire a new generation to stop performing compassion and start practising it—with depth, persistence, and love.
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My book “The Unquiet Woods” was first published in 1989, and in an expanded edition in 2009. I am immensely gratified that it has inspired this wonderful new anthology, “India’s Forests”, that takes the field of environmental history much further and deeper.
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I will be in London and Oxford this weekend and Monday to discuss my new book. Come say hello

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“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

Samuel Beckett.

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A great loss to romantic and sensitive Urdu poetry. Alwida Bashir Badr sb. #bashirbadr

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Cockroach recommendations!

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Read an excerpt here. Details about the book are on our website.

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"Now at the end of my life, I can see neither a free nation firmly established nor the predictability of a fully democratic state in the immediate future. Are we going to have to see the remains of what once began as a free democratic nation?" from Romila Thapar's 'Just Being: A Memoir’.

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So happy to see Mussoorie’s Cambridge Book Depot on this list! https://t.co/B8TY7sAgqk

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In Just Being, historian Romila Thapar invites us into her illustrious world—a rich, extensive memoir from a scholar who has profoundly shaped our understanding of India’s past and present.

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Edward W. Said was a prominent Palestinian-American scholar, cultural critic, and advocate for Palestinian rights, born in Jerusalem on November 1, 1935.
Mahmoud Darwish( 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian author and poet.
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[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

"Why should the West + Christianity give up Islamic Palestine as payoff? Why shouldn't they give up a part of Poland where they put the Jews under most terrible torture? Why don't they give up one State of Germany as compensation for the Holocaust?"- Good book by Pankaj Mishra...

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Replug | How Satyajit Ray found Indir Thakrun, the scene-stealer of ‘Pather Panchali’ https://t.co/emaUPDcPFR

The director coaxed the 80-year-old Chunibala Devi to emerge out of retirement – giving cinema one of its most delightful characters.

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Idea that Mughals were despotic & destroyed India’s Hindu culture was an orientalist construct by the early British colonial state in India. They developed the notion of a golden Hindu past which was in need of resurrection. Early east India company state

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Romila Thapar. Just Being. A Memoir. May 15th. In bookstores.