Hindu Americans have a legitimate right to a fair and culturally sensitive representation in public school curricula. However, no one has a right to distort the truth and push their own political agendas at the expense of American school children.

BY Romila Thapar 9 June 2017

Full text of Romila Thapar's lecture in memory of Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer

BY Romila Thapar 26 October 2015

1. That Penguin Random House contest the suit against The Hindus and 2. That the sections of the Indian Penal Code under which the suit was brought (IPC 153A, 295A) be revised

BY Ashis Nandy 23 February 2014

'Hardly had the ink dried on a magistrate’s judgment exonerating Modi in the Zakia Jafri case, when the Gujarat police filed a First Information Report against Teesta Setalvad and other Citizens for Justice and Peace activists'

BY Romila Thapar 9 January 2014

Eminent personalities express reservations about the UID and demand that "the project should be halted before it goes any further and the prelude to the project be attended to, the public informed and consulted, and the wisdom of the project determin

BY V.R. Krishna Iyer 27 September 2010

'...of supporting the Freedom of Press which the Court has punished,' say 18 eminent personalities, protesting the Delhi High Court holding the editors, publisher and cartoonist of Mid Day guilty of contempt of Court.

BY Others 18 September 2007

'We deplore the recent attack on the CPM office at Nandigram, but deplore even more strongly the policy of retaliation advocated by some constituents of the Left Front Government, and the use of armed elements against the villagers, already at the co

BY Jean Dreze 8 January 2007

An understanding of the past can illumine the present and enable one to think more meaningfully about the future. How the past is to be understood is one among the many alternatives for the future that Indian society is facing in present times.

BY Romila Thapar 31 March 2004

Links between knowledge and ideology do not justify the passing off of political agendas as knowledge as is being done in the rewriting of history by the present central government; and that too of a kind not based on the understanding of history cur

BY Romila Thapar 30 April 2003

[Keynote Address delivered at the National Consultation on Communalisation of School Education organised by the Education Discussion Group (New Delhi, December 13, 2001)]

BY Romila Thapar 12 February 2002