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 (...)
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Indian Spiritual Masters who Fought Orthodoxy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
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Sri Lanka’s natural beauty amid fractures | M.R. Narayan Swamy
15 July 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
Upon a Sleepless Isle: Travels in Sri Lanka by Bus, Cycle and Trishaw
by Andrew Fidel Fernando
Picador India (PP, 2023), Pages: 267; Price: Rs 499 __0__
Call it an irony but tourists, primarily from the West, never stopped (...) -
Israel is reaping what it has sowed | M.R. Narayan Swamy
1 MarchBOOK REVIEW __0__
The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine by Michael Scott-Baumann
Picador India; Pages: 279; Price: Not given
After the killing of an Israeli woman and her two children in a Palestinian grenade attack, Israeli (...) -
Review: Bangalore’s Street-Based Sex Workers - Experiences of Urban Transition | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
4 November 2022, by Deepti Priya MehrotraBOOK 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: (...) -
The Looming Shadow of the 1866 Famine in Orissa | Suranjita Ray
29 April 2023, by Suranjita RayA Haunting Tragedy Gender, Caste and Class in the 1866 Famine of Orissa by Bidyut Mohanty ascertains understanding famine as a process to comprehend who starved during the famine and why. The book engages the reader in understanding the Orissa (...) -
Chatterjee on Creativity from the Periphery by Deepanwita Dasgupta
22 July 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Animesh Chatterjee (Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger)
Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India
by Deepanwita Dasgupta (...) -
Emergency Transforms a Revolutionary | M R Narayan Swamy
3 December 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK 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 (...) -
The Rainbow that was Homi J Bhabha | Papri Sri Raman
22 April 2023, by Papri Sri RamanBOOK REVIEW:
Let Us Talk About Bhabha by S P K Gupta
Pages 818 e-book price in India Rs 50 Evelyn Publishers ISBN 81-90004175
Homi Jehangir Bhabha has always been a mysterious character in science history.
The man died almost 60 (...) -
Credible Fantasies | T Vijeyendra
15 July 2023T Vijayendra has just published a new book of short stories with a title, ‘Credible Fantasies’. The blurb reads:
‘The central idea of the fantasies presented here is to imagine a future for my young friends with ‘Green Jobs’, that is, jobs that help (...) -
A Book on Forgotten Refugees | Joydip Ghosal
22 July 2023Forgotten Refugees, Two Iraqi Brothers in India
by Nandita Haksar
Speaking Tiger Books LLP
2022
ISBN- 978-93-5447-311-1 __0__
Nandita Haksar is an eminent human rights lawyer who has left her own imprint and set a precedent in the arena of (...)