S Roy ChowdhuryTwentieth Century World: RevolutionsEvery century brings its own crisis but the crises of the twentieth century were unprecedented because of the global scale on which they…6 min read·Dec 5, 2021----
S Roy ChowdhuryThe Ever Advancing Receding PlaguePhoto Credit: Mario Hagen, Pixabay2 min read·Aug 10, 2021----
S Roy ChowdhuryTransactionalism: Or Why Some People Don’t Care if 5 Million People DiedConsider this series of unfortunate incidents in India:8 min read·May 31, 2021----
S Roy ChowdhuryQuiet Flows the Delaware — Historical Reflections from New JerseyOver the recent holiday weekend, we went on a road trip like thousands of other inhabitants of the United States. We went to Washington…6 min read·Apr 23, 2019----
S Roy ChowdhuryThe New Media Revenue ModelI am going to step into a minefield and state boldly that it’s not TRPS that dictates media behavior anymore — it is the extraction of…3 min read·Jan 11, 2019----
S Roy ChowdhuryMy Love-Hate Relationship with Dress CodesThe Real Class Wars4 min read·Dec 26, 2018----
S Roy ChowdhuryAll Tech is Human — And Some Humans are Crooks!“ I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us” . That was John…10 min read·Apr 9, 2018----
S Roy ChowdhuryIndia, Pakistan and Competing Visions of Nationhood: Research Notes in World historyLike Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was a Gujarati and a London-trained barrister and a member of the Indian…5 min read·Mar 14, 2018----
S Roy ChowdhuryHow To Disagree With a Mughal India Scholar When You are Not a Mughal India ScholarBefore you start reading the book, Audrey Truschke’s Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King (Stanford: Stanford…7 min read·Nov 29, 2017--1--1
S Roy ChowdhuryThe Paean Poetry of High Imperialism: Jagattarini Dasi’s “Ode to King-Emperor George V and…One of the joys of browsing the old Digital Library of India website before it disappeared was its highly eccentric and unpredictable…5 min read·Sep 30, 2017----