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• Charles Reitz’s Review of The Marcusean Mind
  29 November 2024

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  The Marcusean Mind
  Edited by Eduardo Altheman C. Santos, Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry and Sid Simpson
  Routledge, London
  2025. 602 pp.
  ISBN 9781032462998
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  Reviewed by Charles Reitz
  We are living in world-historical, conflict-ridden times. Many of us have spent our whole professional lives as teachers in the multicultural education reform movement. We have worked with excellent colleagues, but we have faced strong (…)

• Bhavuk’s Review of Nehru’s India by Aditya Mukherjee
  7 December 2024

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  Nehru’s India: Past, Present and Future
  by Aditya Mukherjee
  Vintage Books
  Penguin (25 November 2024)
  Hardcover: 208 pages
  ISBN-10 : 0143471953
  ISBN-13 : 978-0143471950
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  Reviewed by Bhavuk
  An Appraisal of Nehru In Our Times
  Seeing the 14th of November pass uneventfully, one felt dejected that Nehru was not being discussed at such a crucial time for Indian democracy. Aditya Mukherjee’s book Nehru’s India: (…)

• Review of Breyfogle & Brown eds., Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History | Jenia Mukherjee
  7 December 2024

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  Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
  by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Philip C. Brown (Editors)
  Oregon State University Press
  2023. x + 249 pp
  (paper) ISBN 978-0-87071-237-1
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  Reviewed by Jenia Mukherjee
  What is water? Is it H2O or bottled profit

• The Parasol Women of Kerala | Papri Sri Raman
  7 December 2024, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  Revolution Within
  Nampudiri Women as Agents of Social Reform in Kerala
  by T K Anandi
  Tulika Books
  2024, 200 pages
  Hardcover ISBN 978-81-958394-8-3
  Price: Rs 850
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  THIS IS A story of lost agency. A story of the shadows under the lamp. Painstakingly crafted by T K Anandi, a meticulous gender researcher, now a consultant to Kerala

• Review of Bhattacharya’s, Disparate Remedies | Asmita Sarkar
  12 January 2025

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  Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India
  by Nandini Bhattacharya
  McGill-Queen’s University Press
  Intoxicating Histories Series
  2023. xii + 257 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-01753-0
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  Reviewed by Asmita Sarkar (University of Oxford)
  In Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India, Nandini Bhattacharya investigates the historical roots of the contemporary pharmaceutical industry in India. Bhattacharya

• Bliss on Jaffary, ’Abortion in Mexico: A History
  13 September 2025

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  Abortion in Mexico: A History
  by Nora E. Jaffary
  University of Nebraska Press
  Series: Engendering Latin America
  2024, 163 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-4021-7
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  Reviewed by Katherine E. Bliss (Global Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
  In this new volume, historian Nora E. Jaffary examines how and why legal approaches to abortion in Mexico have changed over time. In particular, she seeks (…)

• Review of Vakil, Ganjavii, Khanlarzadeh’s Revolutionary Engineers | Ernest Lee
  20 September 2025

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  Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology
  by Sepehr Vakil, Mahdi Ganjavi, Mina Khanlarzadeh
  MIT Press
  2025. 217 pp. (paper) ISBN 9780262552196 | ISBN electronic: 9780262382830
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  Reviewed by Ernest Lee (University of Chicago)
  Aryameh University of Technology (AMUT)

• Why Haruki Murakami
  13 September 2025, by Disha

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  Strange Library
  by Haruki Murakami
  Harvill Secker
  January 1, 2014, ? 88 pages
  ISBN-10: 1846559219
  ISBN-13: 978-1846559211
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  Haruki Murakami

• Review of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Selected Stories | Malathi Suramanian
  11 October 2025

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  Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
  by Banu Mushtaq
  (Booker Prize Winner 2025)
  Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
  Penguin Random House India
  2024
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  Reviewed by Dr. Malathi Suramanian

• Review of Solomon’s Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma | Saurav K. Rai
  27 September 2025

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  Lifelines:
  The Traffic of Trauma
  by Harris Solomon
  Duke University Press
  2022. xiv + 286 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1621-2; $27.95
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1885-8.
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  Reviewed by Saurav K. Rai (Gandhi Smriti)
  Cultural theorist and media expert Ravi Sundaram, centering his analysis on Delhi in the 1990s against the backdrop of rising instances of car accidents as private car ownership proliferated, argued that contemporary India is suffused with (…)