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  • Dissecting What Destroyed Prabhakaran, LTTE | Sivadas Sankar
    26 January 2025

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    The Rout of Prabhakaran
    by M.R. Narayan Swamy
    Konark
    Pages: xvii + 142; Price Rs 895
    (Also includes Inside an Elusive Mind: Prabhakaran: The First Profile of the World

  • Review of Stanley’s How Fascism Works | Waheed Ahmad Rather
    19 July 2025

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    How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
    by Jason Stanley
    Random House
    2018, xix, 218 pp, Price. Rs 582.00
    (Hardcover), ISBN 978-0-525-51183-0
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    Jason Stanley

  • Reading The Housekeeper and the Professor in a Distracted Century | Disha
    27 September 2025, by Disha

    In my quest to find some calm in this fast-paced world, and in my dwindling habit of reading, I picked up another short book, one I managed to finish in just two hours. It was Yoko Ogawa

  • Will Yogi Adityanath get to rule India? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    21 January 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

    BOOK REVIEW
    Yogi Adityanath: Religion, Politics and Power - The Untold Story
    by Sharat Pradhan and Atul Chandra
    Penguin Random House
    288 Pages
    Nov/2021
    ISBN: 9780143442431
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    Will Yogi Adityanath be the Prime Minister of India one day? Does the monk-turned-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, qualify for the coveted job? If journalists Sharat Pradhan and Atul Chandra are to be believed, this could become a possibility; in any case, Adityanath, (…)

  • Lala Lajpat Rai: A Hindu leader who was secular at heart | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    14 June 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

    [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
    __0__ Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
    by Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
    Penguin/Viking
    ISBN: 9780670094073 Pages: xliii + 748; Price: Rs 1,299
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    Who was the real Lala Lajpat Rai? A veteran Congress leader and a leading star of the Indian freedom movement? Fiercely anti-British and who died due to grievous injuries he sustained in a street protest? A Hindu Mahasabha leader who (…)

  • An Insightful Peep into Pakistan’s Minorities | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    2 June 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

    BOOK REVIEW
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    A White Trail: A Journey into the Heart of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities
    by Haroon Khalid
    Vintage/Penguin Random House Pages: xxi + 334; Price: Rs 399 (PP) ISBN: 9780143460770
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    How do religious minorities cope up in overwhelmingly Islamic Pakistan? Pakistan is not just a country founded by and for Muslims but it has taken great pains to educate entire generations to look down upon the "other" (read minorities), particularly since General Zia ul-Haq (…)

  • 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, 2020. 366 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-4596-3.
    What events and historical processes should be considered a part of Latin America’s Cold War experience? Who were the Latin American Cold War’s principal protagonists? How did a decades-long (…)

  • Review of Davaram’s ’Munnar to Marina: The Journey’
    29 November 2024, by K S Subramanian

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    Munnar to Marina: The Journey
    By W I Davaram
    Notion Press, 2O24
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    reviewed by K. S. Subramanian
    This is a brilliant book by W I Davaram, IPS Retd., former Director General of Police, Tamilnadu. The book is in English (with a separate translation in Tamil). Along with a large number of photographs the book is fascinating and an enjoyable read. The book with 408 pages lacks an Index. The author

  • Emergency Transforms a Revolutionary | M R Narayan Swamy
    3 December 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

    BOOK REVIEW
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    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 in the summer of 1973 filled with Marxist enthusiasm to bring a revolution in the country. Although Indira Gandhi was hailed as a Durga only two years earlier after breaking up Pakistan, a failing economy had sparked unrest all (…)

  • Scanning P.C. Joshi’s Biography | Daya Varma
    18 April 2009, by Daya Varma

    Review Article
    The following review article has been sent to the Mainstream editor on April 6 with a note from the reviewer that reads:
    “I am submitting a review of Gargi Chakravartty’s P.C. Joshi: A Biography for favour of publication in Mainstream weekly. Not living in India, I was able to get the book only a while ago. Nevertheless I feel reviews of this important book reflecting different experiences and perspectives do not get dated. I hope Mainstream will be generous enough to (…)