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Near the start of his new book, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, the historian Ramachandra Guha writes that one of his goals is to solve "the puzzle that has for so long confronted scholar and citizen, foreigner as well as native-namely, why is there an India at all?" India's colorful history spans millenniums, but arguably its most vivid era began in 1947, when the newly independent nation embarked on the unprecedented experiment of democracy. Its survival as a unified country, and as a democracy, against immense odds-crushing poverty, hostile neighbors, secessionist...
...what people are familiar with,” Donovan says. To this end, HUL introduced an extension for the Internet browser Firefox this spring that allows users to right-click on selected text on any Web site and search it through the online HOLLIS library catalog or the Google Scholar search engine...
...students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. As an applied math concentrator, he has been a head course assistant for several classes. His senior thesis, which was about the education of homeless youth, won the Hoopes prize for outstanding scholarship. And recently he was awarded Mather House’s Scholar Citizen prize by his masters and tutors. Next year Sarkar is taking his interest in quantitative social science across the Atlantic. He will be studying evidence-based social work at Oxford with a Frank Knox fellowship, which provides for a year of study at any British Commonwealth university. Alright...
...Class of ’07 too, in a way,” Menand wrote in an e-mailed statement last week. For the next year, The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author will be a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library, where he will work on an intellectual history of the Cold War. Menand said he postponed his leave for a year in order to complete the general education proposal, as well as to co-teach Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium...
William E. McKibben ’82 was president of The Harvard Crimson in 1981. He is the author of ten books, most recently “Deep Economy,” and a scholar in residence at Middlebury College...