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• God’s shadow over Mizoram peace | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  15 August, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  From Guerrilla Fighter to Chief Minister: A Memoir by Zoramthanga
  Penguin/Eight; Pages: xvi + 443; Price: Rs 599 In an age when politicians take credit for everything they do even while spending the tax payers’ money, it is heartening to see a guerrilla-turned-political leader give full marks to God for turning Mizoram from one of the most disturbed regions into India’s most peaceful state.
  Zoramthanga, a pioneer of the once feared Mizo National Front (MNF) who was later (…)

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

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  Snakes, Drugs and Rock

• A Candid Autobiography of a Chief Minister | Joydip Ghosal
  7 June 2024

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  One Among You - Vol 1 The Autobiography of M.K Stalin
  (Translated by A.S Panneerselvan)
  Penguin Viking
  2023 | 152 pages
  ISBN-9780670098361
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  ‘One Among You’, The Autobiography of M.K. Stalin is about the first twenty- three years of his life. In the introduction the author says that it is always a pleasure to reflect on the path one has travelled and recollect the past. Everyone’s face glows when we delve deeper into (…)

• 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 on (…)

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

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  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 (…)

• Commanding prescription for furthering justice through privileging politics over economics | Vijay Kumar
  25 May 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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  Justice by Means of Democracy
  by Danielle Allen
  Indian Print by Satyam Books Pvt. Ltd. 2023 Page 282 Price Rs.995/-
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  The ‘Theory of Justice’ by John Rawls was published in 1971, and since then has been holding the reign of most original work, at least in the post-second World War. The fundamental of Rawlsian paradigm was challenged first time by Prof. Amartya Sen in ‘Idea of Justice’ in 2009 by shifting the focus from (…)

• Political Autobiography of a Midnight’s Child | John Dayal
  17 February 2024, by John Dayal

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  Keeping Up The Good Fight
  From The Emergency To The Present Day
  by Prabir Purkayastha
  LeftWord Books, New Delhi 2023, 230 pages
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  For any of his contemporaries born in a freshly minted independent India, Prabir Purkayastha’s book, “Keeping Up The Good Fight”, is a total recall, in lightning-fast picture flash cards, of the last sixty-years of our own life after leaving school. With the difference that Prabir bookends the (…)

• Review: Emily Laurent-Monaghan on ‘Pleasure Erased’ by Catherine Malabou
  23 December 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Emily Laurent-Monaghan
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  Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought by Catherine Malabou
  Polity 2022. 150 pp. ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509549935 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509549931
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  Unlike ‘woman’ or ‘sex’, the clitoris is not an overdetermined signifier. On the contrary, in Pleasure Erased, Catherine Malabou argues that the clitoris, despite its forcible erasure, persists, waiting to be thought. Arguably one of the most dynamic philosophers thinking today, Malabou (…)

• Oh! Orundhuti, Kamon Acho | Papri Sen Sri Raman
  25 October 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  Mother Mary Comes To Me
  by Arundhati Roy
  Publisher: Penguin Random-House, India
  374 pages
  Price: Rs 899
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  Very authoritative reviews of Mother Mary Comes to Me have been published in the first two months of the book

• A Diplomat
  10 January, by M R Narayan Swamy

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