FULL UNEDITED INTERVIEW LINK: https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/04/29/nl-interview-ramachandra-guha-on-his-ht-column-caa-protest-and-savarkars-hatred-for-gandhi
Ramachandra Guha is a historian, author, and columnist. He was in the news recently after the Hindustan Times spiked his column. He speaks with Abhinandan Sekhri about why he decided to end the column, his detention for protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act last year, and Mahatma Gandhi.
Guha says he first started a column with the Hindustan Times in 2008 but stopped it three years later in protest against what he saw as undue interference in what he wanted to write. In 2013, however, the newspaper approached him to restart the column, with the promise that they won’t change his writing without his permission.
“In the last few months, I have had occasional problems,” he says, pointing out by way of an example that he mentioned “Godi media” in one of his pieces in reference to specific TV channels which was changed to “some channels”. The names of the channels were put back in only after he threatened to stop the column on Twitter.
It’s “deeply distressing”, he adds, that “a prestigious newspaper like the Hindustan Times, once associated with Mahatma Gandhi and the freedom movement, would be so scared.”
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