The fuzzy-headed ghost of Macaulay

'English has become the most aspirational language for India's poor and disadvantaged. Anyone who has any desire to improve their prospects and wants upward mobility, the first thing they do is try to learn English.' Writer Zareer Masani explains Thomas Macaulay's legacy in a fascinating interview with Rediff.com's Archana Masih. 'If you're an Indian reading this book in English, it's probably because of Macaulay,' says the blurb on the book cover of Macaulay, Pioneer of India's ...

'Sonia Gandhi is constantly playing to the gallery...' 'The BJP does not offer any credible alternative to the Congress. The Congress is the lesser evil if you had to choose...' Thomas Macaulay biographer Zareer Masani in a lively conversation. Zareer Masani has written two books on the Nehru-Gandhis; his latest work is the biography of a widely debated figure in India's history, Thomas Babington Macaulay. Macaulay introduced English as a medium of learning in India which created a class ...

There are not ten people in the world whose deaths would spoil my dinner, but there are one or two whose death would break my heart. -Thomas Babington Macaulay (- in a letter to Hannah Macaulay, 1833) You would have thought the saga of Abiola and ...

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To understand India's middle class as it is now, it helps to think of it as two waves that came 150 years apart. First, the British education system combined with India's caste elite to produce the colonial middle class in the mid-19th century. This ...

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The always brings to mind things both ancient and new. There is much that is refreshingly new about Pope Francis. He is the first pope from the New World; the first from outside Europe since the 8th century (when there was a Syrian); the first ...