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• 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

• Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito
  10 April, by K. Sahadevan

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  Marx in the Anthropocene
  Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
  by Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo
  Cambridge University Press
  15 January 2023 | ISBN: 9781108933544
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  Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

• A Reality Check on Operation Sindoor |
  19 March, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• Vincenzo Colaprice. Review of Koivunen, Pia, Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
  8 March

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  Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
  by Pia Koivunen
  De Gruyter Oldenbourg
  2023. Illustrations. 303 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-075844-3;
  Free (open access), ISBN 978-3-11-076116-0
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  Reviewed by Vincenzo Colaprice (University of Turin)
  Youth Festivals and Soviet Diplomacy
  On December 24, 2025, the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) issued a call to (…)

• Review of Pataguni’s Foreign Policy Decision Making In India | P.S. Jayaramu
  19 March, by P S Jayaramu

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  Foreign Policy Decision Making In India : A Political Psychological Perspective
  by S. S. Patagundi
  Rawat Publications
  2025, Pp 201, Price: Rs 1095
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  This above book by Dr. Patagundi, former Professor of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, is the product of his research as a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Sicial Science Research(ICSSR), New Delhi, a few years ago. The book is actually brought out by (…)

• Review of Leach, Melissa; Fairhead, James, Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human | Louise Westling
  10 April

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  Naturekind:
  Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
  by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
  Princeton University Press
  2025. 272 pp.
  (paper) ISBN 978-0-691-27066-1
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  Reviewed by Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
  Melissa Leach and James Fairhead offer a bold new perspective of

• Review of Srinivasulu Karli’s Caste, Dominance and Resistance
  12 May

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Caste, Dominance and Resistance

• Review of Jayaramu’s Decoding Indian Politics | Girija K S
  22 May

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  Decoding Indian Politics by P S Jayaramu
  Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd., New Delhi.
  ISBN NO 978-93-49389-02-1
  No of pages: 260
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  This book is a compilation of articles written by Prof. P S Jayaramu, formerly Professor of Political science in Bangalore University. An ardent writer and a scholar of Political science and International relations, Professor Jayaramu has produced many students and has guided scholars, has (…)

• Henk-Jan Dekker. Review of Romero Sommer, Gonzalo, High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
  15 February

  BOOK REVIEW
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  High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
  by Gonzalo Romero Sommer
  University of Nebraska Press
  2025. 298 pp
  (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-3512-1.
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  Reviewed by Henk-Jan Dekker (Bielefeld University)
  It is quite common for historical accounts of electrification to focus either on urban or rural electrification. The relationship between the two and the ways urban-rural relationships are defined and reconfigured in the process of (…)

• Review of Lovejoy, Alice, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War | Joris Mercelis
  22 April

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  Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
  by Alice Lovejoy
  University of California Press
  2025. Illustrations. 256 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-40293-5
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  Reviewed by Joris Mercelis (Heinrich Heine University D