Book Review

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• A RAW officer’s ordeal in Pakistan & Beyond | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  27 February 2021
  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  Terror in Islamabad by Amar Bhushan HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 171; Price: Rs 250
  This is a work of fiction only in name. This is an outstanding even if bone-chilling tribute to an Indian intelligence officer  (...)
• Covid-19 Pandemic Drove the Indian Economy on the Brink | Dipak Prakash
  27 February 2021
  Book Review by Dipak Prakash *
  Indian economy’s greatest crisis: Impact of the Coronavirus and the road ahead by Arun Kumar Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 264 pages - Dec 31, 2020
  The author Prof. Arun Kumar (well known for his  (...)
• Review of Rashme Sehgal’s The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri | Enakshi Ganguly
  12 March 2021
  Reviewed by Enakshi Ganguly *
  The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri by Rashme Sehgal Mahanadi Books. 2020 [ Available via Amazon]
  Indians love visiting religious destinations. Pilgrims are invited to explore sacred places. The sacred temple of  (...)
• When Sonu Sood Beat Santa Claus | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  5 March 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy
  Title: I Am No Messiah; Author: Sonu Sood with Meena K. Iyer; Publisher: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House); Pages: 215; Price: Rs 399
  This is a heart-warming and a candid account of how actor Sonu Sood achieved the impossible: in the worst  (...)
• Indian Left in a Pit: The Way Out? Prof. Achin Vanaik Examines | Sukla Sen
  5 March 2021
  by Sukla Sen
  Professor Achin Vanaik, to the discerning Indian public in particular, is quite a familiar name—both as a radical intellectual and an activist as well, especially in the field of anti-nuclear peace movement; is a co-recipient, with  (...)
• Alastair Hemmens ’The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought’ reviewed by Ross Sparkes
  8 May 2021
  THE CRITIQUE OF WORK IN MODERN FRENCH THOUGHT: From Charles Fourier to Guy Debord by Alastair Hemmens
  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019. 226 pp. £44.99 pb Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-12585-1 Softcover ISBN 978-3-030-12588-2 eBook ISBN  (...)
• Review: The French Revolutionary Script in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802
  19 March 2021
  William S. Cormack. Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies: The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2019. 392 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0395-6.
  Reviewed by  (...)
• Lotz on John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
  26 March 2021
  John Bellamy Foster The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
  Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 687 pp., £30 hb ISBN 9781583678367
  Reviewed by Corinna Lotz
  [Corinna Lotz’ book Finding Evald Ilyenkov – How a Soviet Philosopher who stood up for  (...)
• When Truth Defeated Murdoch | M R Narayan Swamy
  2 April 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy
  BOOK REVIEW
  Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught up with Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies Publishers: Vintage Books, London; Pages 444; Price: 14.99 pounds
  FOR too long he was considered invincible. The Australia-born American media mogul was all  (...)
• Gabriele Dietrich on D’Mello’s India After Naxalbari - Unfinished History
  10 April 2021, by Gabriele Dietrich
  BOOK REVIEW
  Bernard D’Mello: India After Naxalbari. Unfinished History. Aakar Books 2018
  This meticulously researched book deals with “a thread of history that mainstream historians have tended to either ignore or misinterpret. This account puts  (...)

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