India in the eyes of Isaiah Berlin

One of the most stimulating interviews this columnist conducted for the Times of India was with Sir Isaiah Berlin, a historian of ideas, at All Souls in Oxford in 1989. He was then at the zenith of his fame as a pre-eminent member of the Anglo-American establishment. During the Cold War years he had promoted its causes with considerable brio. That provoked his critics, mainly communists and their fellow-travellers, to deride him as a half-baked scholar, a phoney liberal, a social butterfly and a megaphone of western imperialism.

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