Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar resisted 'distortion’ of history: Kerala CM lauds PG National Award recipient

November 05, 2024 8:16 am

The PG award is a tribute to Marxist philosopher and writer P Govinda Pillai who died in 2012. The award was presented by PG Sanskriti Kendra.

Romila Thapar: 'Majoritarianism can easily become – and often does — an authoritative anti-democratic system…’

August 17, 2023 8:39 am

Historian Romila Thapar, 91, on the recent NCERT textbook rationalisation and the lost ideals of Nehruvian India

‘Intellectualism of past leaders missing today’: Romila Thapar at Maulana Azad biography launch

February 19, 2023 10:22 pm

“Many leaders of that time were intellectuals. They read, thought, and were committed to ensuring a better future society,” said Thapar, the launch’s chief guest. “Reading this book on Azad, I realised I miss that ambience very much today. It doesn't seem to exist.”

Indic texts never valorised acts of desecration as bringing glory to god

May 28, 2022 8:41 am

M. Rajivlochan writes: The idea that god takes multiple forms is ingrained in Indic religions, but not in Abrahamic faiths

When Romila Thapar lost a game of table tennis to a Buddhist monk in China

October 10, 2021 7:15 am

A travelogue by the celebrated historian, Gazing Eastwards offers insights into Thapar’s early academic career and her experiences and encounters at Chinese sites very few foreigners visited during the 1950s

‘Those speaking of developing quality institutions behind destruction of JNU’

December 12, 2020 1:39 am

Romila Thapar said, “It was an exceptional university, which makes it all that much more sad to see that that exceptionalism doesn’t exist any longer. Maybe it will come back.”

Historian Romila Thapar explores history of dissent in new book

September 21, 2020 4:24 pm

Penguin Random House India and Seagull Books have come together to publish the book titled "Voices of Dissent"

More of us will speak every day: Cultural community condemns FIR against celebs who wrote to PM

October 08, 2019 2:40 pm

In a new letter issued on Monday, October 7, the eminent personalities questioned how writing an open letter to the prime minister could be called "an act of sedition".

To target Romila Thapar is to target a new way of asking questions and writing history

October 01, 2019 10:41 am

The truth is that, regardless of the governments in power, universities need academic freedom to flourish, they need fresh air.

Express daily briefing: Vikram lander’s failure raises questions on manned mission; Andreescu beats Serena Williams to win US Open; and more

September 08, 2019 9:00 am

From Romila Thapar talking about the row over JNU asking for her CV to review her Professor Emeritus status to Donald Trump calling off peace negotiations with Taliban, here's all that is making news today.

Romila Thapar And Harbans Mukhia At JNU Campus

March 08, 2016 11:11 am