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  12 October 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

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• Bose’s ’And Quietly Comes the Dawn,
  14 June 2025, by Subhash Gatade

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  And Quietly Comes the Dawn:
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• Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes A Strong Case for Justice to Victimized Maruti Workers | Bharat Dogra
  1 July 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar have just written a book that simply has to be read by anyone interested in the welfare of industrial workers in India. This is also a must reading for all Japanese people involved with human rights to get a glimpse of the havoc their companies cause in the lives of innocent workers and poor people in developing countries.
  The reference here is to a book on victimized Maruti Suzuki workers titled ‘Japanese Management, Indian Resistance—The Struggles of (…)

• Leo Chu Review of ’The Globalization of Wheat by Baranski’
  2 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW Reviewed by Leo Chu (Cambridge University)
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  The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution by Marci Baranski INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment. University of Pittsburgh Press
  2022. 256 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8229-4734-9.
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  When discussing my research with someone from a different field, the term “Green Revolution” does not always ring a bell—people often think it means transition to renewable energy. Among historians, in (…)

• Nehru to Najibullah: A Journalist’s Story | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  15 October 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Reporting India: My Seventy-Year Journey as a Journalist
  by Prem Prakash (ANI)
  Publishers: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House) Pages: 225; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 067009398X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670093984 __0__
  Jawaharlal looked so tired after the 1962 war with China that he almost fell asleep while answering questions from journalist Prem Prakash. “I had to touch him gently to wake him up and tell him I could not present the Indian prime minister to the world in that (…)

• Alastair Hemmens ’The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought’ reviewed by Ross Sparkes
  8 May 2021

  THE CRITIQUE OF WORK IN MODERN FRENCH THOUGHT: From Charles Fourier to Guy Debord by Alastair Hemmens
  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019. 226 pp. £44.99 pb Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-12585-1 Softcover ISBN 978-3-030-12588-2 eBook ISBN 978-3-030-12586-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-12586-8
  Reviewed by Ross Sparkes
  Under capitalism, life is work and work is life. To imagine a world beyond it is sheer blasphemy. Yet, a growing number of titles over the past decade have begun to do just that. They (…)

• 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

• Spiritualty in Indian Freedom Struggle | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  5 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  Indian Ideas of Freedom: B.R. Ambedkar, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, M.N. Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda
  by Dennis Dalton
  HarperCollins India Pages: xv + 519; Price: Rs 699
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  Indian ideas of freedom dew deeply on indigenous traditions of thought, especially religious. But the men and women who led the long and arduous campaign for independence were no religious bigots. They incorporated Indic traditions in their focus on inner (…)

• Review of Pannekoek’s ’The Workers
  19 July 2025

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• Field Notes - Distress and Violence in Rural Bengal | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  27 May 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok
  by Parimal Bhattacharya
  HarperCollins India;
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354894372 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354894374
  299 pages; Price: Rs 499
  This is an extraordinary book, written with a passion about those who are not normally ignored and who, as the title reveals, live in far-flung areas where Bengal’s mostly upper-caste Hindu Bhadralok are normally absent. The book is a mirror to the (…)