| 1. Ramachandra Guha's smoking habits are unknown. |
| 2. His alcohol consumption is also not known. |
| 3. He was born into a Tamil family in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand), India. |
| 4. His mother was a high school teacher, and his father was a director at the Forest Research Institute. |
| 5. Guha was an editor of The Doon School Weekly at the Doon School in Dehradun. |
| 6. Between 1985 and 2000, he taught at various universities in India, North America, and Europe, including Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, Oslo University, and Stanford University. |
| 7. In the mid-90s, he relocated to Bangalore (now Bengaluru) to pursue full-time writing. |
| 8. He also served as a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. |
| 9. Guha is known as a Serial Historian and has authored extensively on topics such as the environment, cricket, post-Independence national history, and tribes. |
| 10. His first book, 'The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya,' was published in 1989. |
| 11. One of his most acclaimed works is 'India After Gandhi,' for which he received the Sahitya Akademi Award. |
| 12. In an interview, Guha shared his transition from non-vegetarianism to vegetarianism during his time at the Doon School. |
| 13. His book on the history of cricket in India, 'A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport,' has received critical praise. |
| 14. On 30 January 2017, the Supreme Court of India constituted a panel headed by Vinod Rai to oversee BCCI, with the inclusion of Ramachandra Guha, Diana Edulji, and Vikram Limaye, following the removal of the BCCI's president and secretary for failing to implement Justice Lodha Panel recommendations. |
| 15. Books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. |
| 16. The New York Times has referred to him as perhaps the best among India's non-fiction writers. |
| 17. Time Magazine has called him Indian democracy's preeminent chronicler. |
