The same way, Romila Thapar is a self-confessed “public intellectual”. (Read her book, The Public Intellectual in India, published by Aleph.) One wonders what the term ‘public’ has to do ...

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 ...