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  • 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

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

    BOOK REVIEW
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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 (…)

  • Review of Weiner’s The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    23 August 2025

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  • A Legendary Conservationist
    2 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Snakes, Drugs and Rock

  • Dwindling Loyalty of India
    9 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Secession of the Successful: The Flight out of New India
    by Sanjaya Baru
    Penguin/Viking
    Pages: xxix + 289
    Price: Rs 799

  • Review of Minami’s, People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold Wa
    17 August 2025

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    People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War
    by Kazushi Minami
    Cornell University Press
    2024. 270 pp.
    (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-7415-7
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    Reviewed by Yanqiu Zheng (St. Lawrence University)
    Kazushi Minami

  • Ghachar Ghochar Waited for Me to Grow Up
    17 August 2025, by Disha

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    Ghachar Ghochar
    by Vivek Shanbhag
    HarperCollins Publishers India
    2015
    124 pages
    ISBN-10: ? 9789351776178
    ISBN-13: ? 978-9351776178
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    Sometimes a story does not unfold for the sake of entertainment or instruction but simply sits in a room, quietly existing, until you are ready to meet it on its own terms. Ghachar Ghochar is not a loud novel, nor is it in a rush to deliver a climax or resolution. It simply waits, almost (…)

  • Testimony Against Silence: Knife by Salman Rushdie and the Dark Mirror to India’s Present | Ismail Salahuddin
    30 August 2025, by Ismail Salahuddin

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    Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
    by Salman Rushdie
    Random House
    2024
    ISBN 10: 0593730240
    ISBN 13: 9780593730249
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    There are books that explain, books that imagine, and books that dare. But every once in a while, a book comes along that refuses to be just a book, it becomes a cry, a wound, a reckoning. Salman Rushdie