Today my guest is environmental scholar, historian and biographer Ramachandra Guha. He is the author of a number of books, including a two-volume biography of Gandhi and the award-winning book “India After Gandhi.”
Recorded May 7th, 2025.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:08 - Speaking with Nature
00:08:42 - Unquiet Woods
00:38:29 - Science and Progress of Environmentalism
00:47:33 - Radhakamal Mukerjee
00:55:06 - K. M. Munshi
01:03:38 - Technological Progress and Tradeoffs
01:11:22 - Jayaprakash Narayan
01:19:39 - Outro
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