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  • Revisiting the 1943 Bengal Famine | Arup Kumar Sen
    19 July 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

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    The Bengal famine of 1943 has found expressions in the academic discourse over the years. Amartya Sen’s Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981) and Paul R. Greenough’s Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-44 (Oxford University Press, 1982) are classic books on the subject. Madhusree Mukerjee’s more recent book titled Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (…)

  • Burn Manipur, Burn! Documenting State-Sponsored Brutalities | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    19 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Viewing Indian Polity from the Prism of Manipur: A Compendium on the Continuing Manipur Conflict and Crisis
    Compiled by: Dr Syeda Hameed, Clifton D’Rozario
    Manak Publications, USA Pages: 119; Price: Rs 400/$ 15
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    There cannot be a much better example than Manipur to prove the abject and colossal failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-touted and supposedly magical “double engine government”.
    Modi’s long silence (…)

  • Review of Rossen Djagalov’s, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds | Joshua First
    20 February 2021

    Rossen Djagalov. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds. Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00109-6; $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00110-2.
    Reviewed by Joshua First (The University of Mississippi) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
    Rossen Djagalov begins his book, From (…)

  • Review of Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | KS Subramanian
    12 July 2024, by K S Subramanian

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    Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
    by Nandita Haksar
    Speaking Tiger 2023, Rs 399
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    Prelude
    Manipur was an independent kingdom with a constitution of its own when it was forcibly taken over by India in 1949 in the name of national integration. The resulting resistance and insurgencies are characteristic features of the state. State (…)

  • Review of Goodman’s How the World Ran Out of Everything | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    12 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S Goodman
    Mariner Books New York/Boston Pages: viii + 406; Price: Rs 599
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    It is now politically fashionable in the US to blame China for all the economic ills the world’s richest country is facing. Yet it was the White House and the American monopoly capital that made Beijing what it is now – a global economic (…)

  • Will the Sun Shine Again in Manipur? | Arup Kumar Sen
    22 June 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

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    Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
    by Nandita Haksar
    Speaking tiger (5 January 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354477011 | ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354477010
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    Manipur is burning with hate and violence since May 2023. We the outsiders do not know what triggered this vicious cycle of violence. Nandita Haksar’s recently published book, Shooting the Sun: Why (…)

  • Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 | Ankhi Mukherjee
    22 June 2024

    June 21, 2024
    Brotherless Night is an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, an awakening from tribal loyalties into new-found identity and agency. It is set in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, during the civil war between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese ethnic majority and the country’s Tamil minority. Between 1983 and 2009, this bitter conflict resulted in the deaths of around 100,000 people and displaced approximately 800,000 more.
    The protagonist, Sashikala Kulenthiren, a young Tamil woman, is a teenager when (…)

  • The Artist as A Quiet
    17 May 2024

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    Leela Mukherjee A Guileless Modernist

  • Choices, Priorities, Freedoms and Mahbub ul Haq | Aijaz Ahmed
    25 May 2024

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    Reflections on Human Development Edited by Mahbub ul Haq
    Oxford University Press Inc. UK
    1996, 272 pages Price: 34 pounds
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    The central theme of Mahbub ul Haq’s book, Reflections on Human Development, revolves around a novel development paradigm centered on human well-being. It argues that while income growth is important, it should not be seen as the sole indicator of development nor as the ultimate goal of human life. (…)

  • Review of Iqbal S. Hasnain’s Fault Lines In The Faith | P S Jayaramu
    1 June 2024

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    Fault Lines In The Faith: How events of 1979 shaped the Islamic World
    by Iqbal S. Hasnain
    Rupa
    2023 Pp 279, Price ₹395.
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    Iqbal Syed Hasnain, the author of this book, is a former Pro-Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard and former Vice Chancellor of Calicut University, besides the other assignments he handles. Hasnain has varied interests and the same can be discerned from his interests in Himalayan glaciers and (…)