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• 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  (...)
• An Accidental but Secular Prime Minister | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  21 May, by M R Narayan Swamy
  Furrows in a Field: The Unexplored Life of H.D. Deve Gowda
  by Sugata Srinivasaraju
  Vintage/Penguin Random House
  Pages: 562; Price Rs 799
  ISBN: 9780670093434
  __0__ He was a reluctant Prime Minister but proved his worth once he entered 7 Race  (...)
• Review: Ramesh on Dewan’s Misreading the Bengal Delta
  12 November
  Book reveiw by Aditya Ramesh*
  
  Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
  by Camelia Dewan
  University of Washington Press 2021. Illustrations, maps, tables. 254 pp. (cloth) ISBN  (...)
• Clevenger’s Review of Levett, G, ed., Sport in History Podcast
  5 March
  Reviewed by Samuel Clevenger (Towson University)
  __0__ Sport in History Podcast. United Kingdom:
  British Society of Sports History, 2020-21
  by Geoff Levett, ed.
  Podcast, https://www.sportinhistory.org/categories/podcast __0__ Published on  (...)
• When Thugs and Dacoits Defied the British | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  19 November, by M R Narayan Swamy
  BOOK REVIEW
  
  Tales of Crimes Past: A Casebook of Crime in Colonial India
  by Sunil Nair
  Hachette India
  Pages: 226; Price: Rs 599
  
  They were thugs, they held the authorities in contempt, they strangled innocent travellers at will, and  (...)
• Review: Rani and Raza on Heewon Kim’s The Struggle for Equality
  27 May
  Reviewed by: Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza
  __0__ The Struggle for Equality: India’s Muslims and Rethinking the UPA Experience by Heewon Kim
  Cambridge University Press 2019 Pages‘s: 247 Online ISBN: 9781108235839
  
  The United Progressive  (...)
• Is Our Democracy Dying? | Papri Sri Raman
  13 August, by Papri Sri Raman
  BOOK REVIEW
  
  The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State by Josy Joseph
  Context-Westland 2021 Rs 454 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390679532 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390679539
  
  I WAS TALKING to a journalist friend across a 5G spectrum 2000 km away,  (...)
• Review of Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng, The Matter of Facts | Jessica R. Avery
  19 August
  BOOK REVIEW
  __0__ The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science
  by Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng
  Cambridge: MIT Press 2020. Illustrations. 376 pp (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-04388-5; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-35828-6.
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• When Nationalists Backed ‘Made in India’ | M R Narayan Swamy
  17 December 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy
  BOOK REVIEW
  
  Branded in History: Fresh Marketing Lessons from Vintage Brands
  by Ramya Ramamurthy
  Hachette India
  Pages: 309; Price: Rs 499
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9388322681 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9388322683
  
  Did you know that Sunlight soap is as old  (...)
• Field Notes - Distress and Violence in Rural Bengal | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  27 May, by M R Narayan Swamy
  Book Review by M.R. Narayan Swamy __0__
  Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok
  by Parimal Bhattacharya
  HarperCollins India;
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354894372 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354894374
  299 pages; Price: Rs 499
  This is an  (...)

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