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  • Durjan Singh—Biography of an Activist who fought for the Rights of the Poorest | Bharat Dogra
    9 March 2024, by Bharat Dogra

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    This is a short but very inspiring and interesting biography of a communist activist who struggled for the rights of the poorest people in Bundelkhand region. Keeping in view the weakness of the communist parties in the Hindi belt in recent times, it may be of interest to many young people that the undivided Communist Party of India and after its division the CPI used to be very strong in the undivided Banda district (now including Banda and (…)

  • A Man Extraordinary Who Coined ’Jai Hind’ | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    28 May 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Abid Hasan Safrani: Netaji’s Comrade-in-Arms
    Compiled by: Ismat Mehdi and Shehbaz Safrani
    Orient BlackSwan
    Pages: xxv + 148; Price: Rs 895. __0__
    He was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s sole Indian companion on his perilous 90-day submarine voyage from Europe to Asia in 1943. He was also the inventor of the INA’s – and subsequently free India’s – patriotic slogan: Jai Hind! If the Japanese had found a third seat for Netaji on what turned out to be his final air (…)

  • Risks and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change | K N Ninan
    20 May 2023

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    by K N Ninan *
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    Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change by Vinod Thomas
    Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore 2023. xxiii + 195p. US$ 27.99 ISBN 978-981-19-8620-8 ISBN 978-981-19-8621-5 (eBook) __0__
    At no time in human history has mankind faced multiple environmental challenges as the current generation such as unprecedented levels of climate change, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, pollution, and land degradation. While releasing the synthesis (…)

  • The Missing Bridge between Two Volatile Classes | Papri Sri Raman
    2 December 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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    __0__ Liberalised India, Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals
    by Anshu Srivastava
    Pages: 148 Price Rs 995 (hardback)
    Routledge, an imprint of Francis & Taylor ISBN: 978-1-032-05489-6 (pbk)
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    The title is interesting, any study of a ‘politicised’ middle class is always fascinating, though political labeling is changing rapidly. Who is Middle Class, who Upper Class or Lower can no longer be defined categorically, it is no longer a classically (…)

  • Restoring Peace and Democracy in Chhattisgarh: Inherent Message of a Political Memoir
    27 November 2015, by Gabriele Dietrich

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    Inside Chhattisgarh: A Political Memoir by Ilina Sen; Penguin Books India; 2014; pages: 307; Price: Rs 399.
    This is an extraordinary book, based on an unusual life-journey, rooted in search of solidarity and democratic transformation of society. It is unfortunate that Ilina and Binayak Sen have been in the national and international limelight because of the trumped-up Binayak Sen case and the subsequent “Free Binayak Sen Campaign” which was, of course, very positive. This (…)

  • Book Review: Kramer on Woodhouse, ’The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism’
    8 November 2020

    Keith Makoto Woodhouse. The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 392 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16588-4
    Reviewed by Anna Kramer (University of Colorado)
    (August, 2020)
    One of our central tasks as historians is to take our subjects seriously, and Keith Makoto Woodhouse does just that in The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism, successfully wrestling with the ideas and methods of radical environmentalists (…)

  • Afghans the West Betrayed | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    1 April 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story by Levison Wood and Geraint Jones Hodder & Stoughton 2023 Pages: 340; Price: Rs 899 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1399718126 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1399718127
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    The Americans led a brutal war in Afghanistan for two long and bloody decades, vowing to usher in democracy despite the terrible failures in Vietnam and Iraq. And like earlier, the Americans one day decided that enough was enough. But the military pullout, which was long in the (…)

  • Kritskiy’s Review of Glaser, Lee, (eds.) Comintern Aesthetics
    17 December 2021

    Reviewed by Vsevolod Kritskiy (University of Amsterdam) __0__ Comintern Aesthetics
    Amelia M. Glaser, Steven S. Lee, eds.
    Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2020 Illustrations. xxi + 563 pp. $95.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4875-0465-6 __0__
    In Comintern Aesthetics, editors Amelia M. Glaser and Steven S. Lee include sixteen diverse chapters that seek to “remap world literature and culture from the perspective of world communism” (p. 3). In a timely and welcome collection, the contributing (…)

  • It’s All About Modi, Only Modi | Papri Sri Raman
    6 April 2024, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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    India’s Soul Possessed
    by L K Sharma
    Kindle Edition
    Notion Press
    July 18, 2023 | 471 pages | ASIN : B0CF53VX53
    via Amazon
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    The writer of the book, India’s Soul Possessed: New India

  • Why Nature Turned Furious on Kedarnath Region? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    18 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    The Raging Himalayas and A Warming Planet: Recollections of the 2003 Himalayan Floods and Reflections on Global Warning by Asokan Vengassery Krishnan
    Konark ISBN: 9788195678693 Pages: 210; Price: Rs 495
    __0__ Even as he entered the scenic Himalayan region of Kedarnath in June 2003, Asokan Krishnan felt disgusted on seeing the ugly all-round construction in brazen violation of the environment. There were plenty of multi-storey lodges and hotels built on the delicate (…)