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• Frens-String on Chastain and Lorek, ’Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America
  12 June 2021
  Reviewer: Joshua Frens-String
  Andra B. Chastain, Timothy Lorek, eds. Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America (INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,  (...)
• 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  (...)
• A tale of love, truth and victimhood | Prasenjit Chowdhury
  23 July 2021
  BOOK REVIEW by Prasenjit Chowdhury __0__
  One Love, and the Many Lives of Osip B
  by C. P. Surendran
  Niyogi Books, New Delhi
  www.niyogibooksindia.com/
  Email: niyogibooks[at]gmail.com
  IMPRINT: OLIVE TURTLE June - July 2021, 372 pages  (...)
• Review: Dreeze on Revising the Revolution by Larry E. Holmes
  22 July
  Reviewed by Jonathon Dreeze (Cornell College) __0__ Revising the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia’s Official History of 1917
  by Larry E. Holmes
  Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2021. 220 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-0-253-05479-1; $27.99  (...)
• A Revolutionary Revolt Pre-1857 | M R Narayan Swamy
  27 November 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy
  BOOK REVIEW
  Foreshadowing the Great Rebellion: The Vellore Revolt, 1806 by K.A. Manikumar
  Orient BlackSwan
  ISBN 9789354421181
  Pages 288
  Price: Rs 695
  
  About half a century before the 1857 Rebellion or the First War of Independence,  (...)
• Review Essay: ‘Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi’, by Jairam Ramesh | KS Subramanian
  8 May 2021
  by KS Subramanian
  Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi by Jairam Ramesh Simon & Schuster, India, 2018, pp.518, Price Rs. 799 
  This remarkable book is about Parmeshwar Narain Haksar arguably India’s most influential and powerful  (...)
• 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  (...)
• Indian Spiritual Masters who Fought Orthodoxy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  29 July, by M R Narayan Swamy
  review by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  India’s Greatest Minds: Spiritual Masters, Philosophers, Reformers
  by Mukunda Rao
  Hachette India Pages: 499 Price: Rs 699
  Even hundreds of years after his death, the Sai Baba of Shirdi (1838-1918) remains one of the  (...)
• Review: Bangalore’s Street-Based Sex Workers - Experiences of Urban Transition | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
  4 November
  BOOK REVIEW
  Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
  
  Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore By Neethi P. and Anant Kamath
  Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2022, Pages 211, Hard Bound, Price 895.00 ISBN:  (...)
• Emergency Transforms a Revolutionary | M R Narayan Swamy
  3 December 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy
  BOOK REVIEW
  
  The Struggle Within: A Memoir of the Emergency
  by Ashok Chakravarti
  HarperCollins India
  July 2021
  221 Pages; Price: Rs 399
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354227473 __0__
  A young man jettisons his dream to do PhD in Oxford and returns to India  (...)

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