Prof R Guha to deliver Neelan Tiruchelvam memorial lecture

Award-winning historian, biographer, columnist and cricket writer Prof. Ramachandra Guha will deliver the 12th Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture tomorrow at 6.00 pm at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute Auditorium.

The title of his lecture is Making South Asian Cities Habitable: A Perspective from the Past.

Ramachandra Guha is acknowledged as a world authority in three distinct fields of scholarship: pioneering in the field of environmental history in South Asia, having authored several landmark essays on environmentalism and being seen as a pioneer in the field of sports history.

Prof Guha taught at various universities in India, Europe and North America, including the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, Stanford University and at Oslo University, and later at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Guha’s books include India after Gandhi, The Unquiet Woods, Savaging the Civilized, Environmentalism: A Global History, An Anthropologist Among the Marxists. His books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages.

An authority in cricket, he has written three books on the game: Wickets in the East, Spin and Other Turns and an award-winning social history of cricket: A Corner of a Foreign Field.

Prof Guha is based in Bangalore.