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Scanning P.C. Joshi’s Biography | Daya Varma
18 April 2009, by Daya Varma -
Excellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period
18 August 2013BOOK REVIEW
by Yogesh Puri
Gopinath Bardoloi, “The Assam Problem” and Nehru’s Centre by Nirode K. Barooah; Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati; 2010; pp. 675.
“...The subject I have touched in this book and the material used for the purpose (...) -
Restoring Peace and Democracy in Chhattisgarh: Inherent Message of a Political Memoir
27 November 2015, by Gabriele DietrichBOOK REVIEW
Inside Chhattisgarh: A Political Memoir by Ilina Sen; Penguin Books India; 2014; pages: 307; Price: Rs 399.
This is an extraordinary book, based on an unusual life-journey, rooted in search of solidarity and democratic transformation (...) -
All-encompassing Economic History of Indian Peasantry
26 December 2009, by Sekhar BandyopadhyayBOOK REVIEW
Peasant History of Late Pre-Colonial and Colonial India by Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri; Pearson Education, New Delhi; 2008; pp. xxv+939.
It is always difficult to review a book by a teacher. Such a review always tends to become a (...) -
Book Review: Understanding the Nuances of Development
19 May 2007, by G Narasimha RaghavanDevelopment Discourse: Issues and Concerns by T.K. Oommen; Regency Publications, New Delhi; 2004 .
Back in 1965, Dudley Seers wondered aloud:
What has been happening to poverty? What has been happening to unemployment? What has been happening to (...) -
IFS Officer Recalls Charms, Challenges | M.R. Narayan Swamy
22 July 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW __0__
Indian Foreign Service: Charms and Challenges by T.P. Sreenivasan
Current Books ISBN : 978-93-5482-615-3 Pages:108 Price: Rs 250 https://ebooks.dcbooks.com/indian-foreign-service-charms-and-challenges
Nawaz Sharif told (...) -
Book Review: Subramanian on Moulik’s ’Rogues among the Ruins’
18 June 2021‘Rogues among the Ruins’
by Achala Moulik
December 2021 ; 312 pages
ISBN: 978-93-89136-69-2
Olive Turtle - Niyogi Books
The novel by Achala Moulik titled ‘Rogues among the Ruins’, Neogi Publishers, was debated recently at a book discussion at (...) -
Book Review of Lise Morjé Howard, Power in Peacekeeping | Chiara Ruffa
13 June 2020Reviewed by Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University)
Lise Morjé Howard. Power in Peacekeeping. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 274 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-45718-7
Lise Howard’s The Power of Peacekeeping is about how (...) -
Book Review: Gandhi’s ingenuously reconstructed autobiography | Suhas Borker
30 July 2021, by Suhas BorkerRESTLESS AS MERCURY:
My Life As a Young Man
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Edited by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Aleph Book Company ; January 2021 ; 400 p
ISBN: 9788194874140
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As I read the preface by Gopalkrishna (...) -
A Doctor with a Heart | M.R. Narayan Swamy
29 October 2022Reviewed by M.R. Narayan Swamy __0__
When The Heart Speaks: Memoirs of a Cardiologist by Dr Upendra Kaul Konark Publishers Pages: 202 Price: Rs 750 __0__
There are plenty of good doctors in this country, fortunately. Yet, it is not easy to know (...)