India Then and Now

Rudrangshu Mukherjee was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal, Nehru University, New Delhi, and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He received a D.Phil in modern history from Oxford University, and has held visiting appointments at various universities, both in India and abroad. A specialist on nineteenth-century history of India, he has written and edited several books on the subject. He is currently Editor, Editorial Pages, for The Telegraph.Vir Sanghvi, one of India's leading journalists, is currently the Editorial Director of The Hindustan Times. Educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, and Oxford University, Sanghvi was only 22 when he become the founder-editor of the Bombay magazine. Apart from writing serious political essays, he also writes a popular weekly column on food and drink. At present, he divides his time between print and television media, and anchors a number of successful television programmes.