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The Scam That Shook a Nation: The Nagarwala Scandal
by Prakash Patra, Rasheed Kidwai
HarperCollins India
Pages: xi + 263; Price: Rs 399
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It is a story that has been told, literally, a million times. But when Prakash Patra and Rahseed Kidwai, two extremely capable journalists, recap the story with their penchant for thorough research, it becomes a book you just cannot put down.
The sensational incident which the book (…)
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A Gripping Saga of India
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Lukas Ley’s Review of The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobbette
12 April 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
Review by Lukas Ley
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Duke University Press 2023. 248 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-2708-9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-2505-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-2007-3
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Dandy Volcanoes
The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobette invites readers to get up close to the formation of the earth. This book is about active volcanoes in Indonesia, whose craters animate both geological (…) -
When The Other Moves Into Limelight | Radhakanta Barik
11 March 2023, by Radhakanta BarikBOOK REVIEW __0__
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India by Šarūnas Paunksnis
Oxford University Press 2019 ISBN : 0199493189 193 pages, Kindle Edition __0__
GLOBALIZATION TRANSFORMED INDIA into modern economy in the mid-nineties. The positive impact on the economy, however, disrupted India’s traditional social structures. Withdrawal of the state from economic activities pushed society in India to modernise but created tenuous relationships in different (…) -
The Artist as A Quiet
17 May 2024fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Scholarly Inauguration Of New Genre Of Biography | Vijay Kumar
26 July 2024, by Vijay Kumar[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Of Law And Life by Upendra Baxi
in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sruti Chaganti
Orient BlackSwan 2024 Pages 582 | Price Rs.2300/-
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The Book: OF LAW AND LIFE: Upendra Baxi in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sruti Chaganti is a unique book. It has inaugurated radically new genre which straddles rich and varied forms. It is certainly not an (…) -
China’s Challenge to America | M.R. Narayan Swamy
13 May 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
by M.R. Narayan Swamy
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Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
by Kishore Mahbubani
PublicAffairs, New York Pages: 312; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 : 1541768132 ISBN-13 : 978-1541768130
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Is China’s tremendous economic growth a threat to the United States? Is Beijing trying to dethrone Washington as the world’s numero uno? Is the Communist Party of China trying to destabilize American and Western values? Will China’s aggressive onward (…) -
Thom Loyd. Review of Iandolo, Alessandro, Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968
31 August 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968
by Alessandro Iandolo
Cornell University Press 2022. xv + 287 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-6443-1.
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Reviewed by Thom Loyd (Augusta University)
In his 1955 novel, Flamingo Feather, the Afrikaner writer Laurens van der Post painted a sinister picture of Soviet influence in Africa, one in which the Soviet Union used whatever underhand means it (…) -
Tanya Goyal. Review of Ohman, Carl, The Afterlife of Data
6 December 2025[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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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)
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Credible Fantasies | T Vijeyendra
15 July 2023T Vijayendra has just published a new book of short stories with a title, ‘Credible Fantasies’. The blurb reads:
‘The central idea of the fantasies presented here is to imagine a future for my young friends with ‘Green Jobs’, that is, jobs that help in restoring ecology and creating equity among humans. It is a very difficult proposition under the present circumstances and hence I refer to them as ‘fantasies’.
‘However, conditions are changing fast and soon it will be possible for (…) -
Emergency Transforms a Revolutionary | M R Narayan Swamy
3 December 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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The Struggle Within: A Memoir of the Emergency
by Ashok Chakravarti
HarperCollins India
July 2021
221 Pages; Price: Rs 399
ISBN-10 : 9354227473 __0__
A young man jettisons his dream to do PhD in Oxford and returns to India in the summer of 1973 filled with Marxist enthusiasm to bring a revolution in the country. Although Indira Gandhi was hailed as a Durga only two years earlier after breaking up Pakistan, a failing economy had sparked unrest all (…)