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• 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. (…)

• 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 (…)

• Prabhakaran’s militarist strategy led to doom, says revealing book | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  14 July, by M R Narayan Swamy

  The seeds for a miserable end to Velupillai Prabhakaran’s Tamil Eelam dream were laid by the man himself — a long, long, long time ago.
  This is the conclusion one draws after reading a brutally honest and at times painful sketch of the early years of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by one of Prabhakaran’s earliest associates, Ganeshan Iyer.
  The Tamil work, Porattahil Enadhu Pathivugal, was first published abroad in 2011, two years after Prabhakaran was slain. It was (…)

• Pakistan
  24 January, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Perfect Storm: The History and Anatomy of 26/11
  by Prabhakar Aloka and Nikhil Ravi
  Ebury Press/Penguin Random House
  Pages: xxxi + 220; Price: Rs 499
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  If former Intelligence Bureau officer Prabhakar Aloka is to be believed, Pakistan

• Review of Jayaramu’s Decoding Indian Politics | Girija K S
  22 May

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  Decoding Indian Politics by P S Jayaramu
  Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd., New Delhi.
  ISBN NO 978-93-49389-02-1
  No of pages: 260
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  This book is a compilation of articles written by Prof. P S Jayaramu, formerly Professor of Political science in Bangalore University. An ardent writer and a scholar of Political science and International relations, Professor Jayaramu has produced many students and has guided scholars, has been (…)

• The Missing Bridge between Two Volatile Classes | Papri Sri Raman
  2 December 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  __0__ Liberalised India, Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals
  by Anshu Srivastava
  Pages: 148 Price Rs 995 (hardback)
  Routledge, an imprint of Francis & Taylor ISBN: 978-1-032-05489-6 (pbk)
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  The title is interesting, any study of a ‘politicised’ middle class is always fascinating, though political labeling is changing rapidly. Who is Middle Class, who Upper Class or Lower can no longer be defined categorically, it is no longer a classically (…)

• Alice Oates. Review of Grossman, Sara J., Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
  15 March 2024

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  by Alice Oates
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  Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
  by Sara J. Grossman
  Duke University Press 2023. Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-2502-3 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-2005-9
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  Immeasurable Weather is the story of “how settler colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriachal power informed, upheld, and bolstered meteorological science and data (…)

• When Sonu Sood Beat Santa Claus | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  5 March 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Title: I Am No Messiah; Author: Sonu Sood with Meena K. Iyer; Publisher: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House); Pages: 215; Price: Rs 399
  This is a heart-warming and a candid account of how actor Sonu Sood achieved the impossible: in the worst nightmarish months of Covid-19, he became a one point of hope and instant action for countless people across the country and beyond. At a time when administrations appeared to collapse and “celebrities” retreated into safe cocoons, this man from Moga (…)

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

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  __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 advocated (…)

• Motivated Attempt To Denigrate The Constitution | Vijay Kumar
  17 August 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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  The Colonial Constituion by Arghya Sengupta
  Juggernaut Page 285 Price Inr 599/-
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  The colonial constitution by Arghya Sengupta has come at a time when talks for the new Constitution are being floated in certain quarters, especially by those perceived to be close to the present ruling dispensation.
  The Constitution of India was the outcome of intense deliberations by the framers of the Constituent Assembly, on the one hand, (…)