Ramachandra Guha is an author and columnist the former Philippe Roman Chair of International Affairs and History at the London School of Economics. He has taught at the University of California at Berkley, Yale University, Oslo University, Stanford University, and the Indian Institute of Science and at the London School of Economics. He has been the preeminent contemporary author on recent Indian History of Environmentalism in the Indian context. His historical writings have been informed by his early work on the environmental movement in India. His work on the historical and social impact of cricket in India is highly regarded. His book, "India after Gandhi", has emerged as a popular scholarly account of the post-independence History of the Indian Republic. The book was selected as the Book of the Year by numerous publications and as a book of the decade by the 'The Times' of London, the ‘Times of India’, and 'The Hindu'. His book, "A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian history of a British sport", a historical and social study of cricket in India, has been decorated as Cricket Book of the Year by 'The Daily Telegraph'. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to in the academic sphere he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, by the Government of India, in 2009. He was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award (for non-fiction book) by the Indian Express Group, 2007-08, the Leopold-Hidy Award, by the American Society for Environmental History in 2002 and named one of top 100 public intellectuals, by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines, 2008.