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• An Expose of Hitler’s Disdain for India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  26 November 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Hitler and India:
  The untold Story of his Hatred for the Country and Its People
  by Vaibhav Purandare
  HarperCollins Publishers
  207 pages
  Price: Rs 399
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  Adolf Hitler is considered by some as a friend of India because he hosted, even if briefly, Subhas Chandra Bose. This is perhaps one reason why his autobiography Mein Kampf sells well in this country. The reality is nauseatingly different, as journalist-author Vairbhav Purandare unveils in this path (…)

• Review: ‘Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik’ | Rishav Sharma
  2 June 2023

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  Interpreting the World to Change It: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik C.P Chandrashekhar and Jayati Ghosh (editors)
  Tulika Books, New Delhi 2018 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9382381937 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9382381938 __0__
  Interpreting the World to Change it: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik is a collection of essays celebrating the life of the stellar Marxist economist Professor Prabhat Patnaik. The contributors include Ashok Mitra, Irfan Habib, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Akeel Bilgrami, Prakash (…)

• A Star of Cochin Port Sounds Wake Up Call for Kerala | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  13 September 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Notes from Willingdon Island: The Past, The Present, and The Future of Cochin Port and its Hinterland
  by N. Ramachandran
  Konark
  Pages: xxvi + 334; Price: Rs 900
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  This is a beautiful and straight-from-the-heart account of the Cochin Port

• Review of Sainath’s The Last Heroes | KS Subramanian
  21 January 2023, by K S Subramanian

  Reviewed by KS Subramanian
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  The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by P Sainath
  (Penguin India) 2022
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  The book is dedicated to the author’s mother whose stories of freedom fighters including those of her father who spent years in British jails inspired him. The author’s grandfather was VV Giri who became President of India after its independence.
  While at university, the author had learnt that almost all the major uprisings against the British had begun in the (…)

• Review: Thakuria on Marriott’s edited volume, India through Hindu Categories
  7 January 2023

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  India through Hindu Categories
  by McKim Marriott (ed.)
  New Delhi: Sage
  1990. Xvi+209 pp. Plates, Maps, References, Errata, Index. Rs. 450 (hardback)
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  This book is an ambitious attempt in the form of collective effort of academic intellectuals to understand social behaviour of people from cultural categories, splitting out from the bias of general social science which analyses social behaviour and configuration under certain fixed (…)

• Review of Shastri’s Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey | P. S. Jayaramu
  14 July, by P S Jayaramu

  Book Review: Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey, by Sandeep Shastri Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd. New Delhi, 2026, Pp.158, Price: Rs. 495. ISBN : 978-93-49389-26-7 Prof. Sandeep Shastri , who is a well known academician writing for decades on electoral poitics, federal relations and about the functioning of India’s democratic institutions has penned a book about his academic assignments across the continents from 1993 to 2022. He refers to them as his academic odyssey. (…)

• Tanya Goyal. Review of Ohman, Carl, The Afterlife of Data
  6 December 2025

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  The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
  by Carl Ohman
  University of Chicago Press
  2024. 200 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-82822-0
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  Reviewed by Tanya Goyal (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
  The internet never dies

• Chandrashekhar Azad - latest biography of an iconic revolutionary | Chaman Lal
  26 July 2024, by Chaman Lal

  To mark 23rd July birth anniversary of Azad
  Two names are most evocative names among Indian revolutionaries of freedom struggle. Both were comrade in arms. Chandershekhar Azad was the Commander-in-chief of Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), who was named as Balraj in Bhagat Singh handwritten posters on the assassination of Lahore ASP, J P Saunders. Another significant document-Philosophy of the Bomb. Authored mainly by Bhagwati Charan Vohra but improvised with Azad (…)

• Rise of Hindutva Politics and Crisis of Congress Party: Search for an Alternative Politics | Badre Alam khan and Sanjay Kumar
  5 August 2023, by Badre Alam Khan

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  Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics Growing Polarization and the Decline of the Congress Party (2009-19)
  by Zoya Hasan
  Oxford University Press
  23 August 2022 | 216 Pages
  ISBN: 9780192863416
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  The Grand Old Congress Party has for some time now been going through an existential crisis at the ideological and organizational level in current Indian politics. However, the Karnataka Election verdict (2023) has given a new lease of life to the Party. In (…)

• Review of Lovejoy, Alice, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War | Joris Mercelis
  22 April

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  Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
  by Alice Lovejoy
  University of California Press
  2025. Illustrations. 256 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-40293-5
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  Reviewed by Joris Mercelis (Heinrich Heine University D