Romila Thapar I never thought that I would face such an acute challenge to what I thought of as my normal life, and that it would lead me to asking what I meant by a normal life. I belong to a ...

Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and ...

Anirudh Kanisetti is a self-confessed “public historian”. The same way, Romila Thapar is a self-confessed “public intellectual”. (Read her book, The Public Intellectual in India ...