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• Sri Lanka’s natural beauty amid fractures | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  15 July 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Upon a Sleepless Isle: Travels in Sri Lanka by Bus, Cycle and Trishaw
  by Andrew Fidel Fernando
  Picador India (PP, 2023), Pages: 267; Price: Rs 499 __0__
  Call it an irony but tourists, primarily from the West, never stopped exploring Sri Lanka all through the period the country was caught up in one of the longest running and blood-soaked ethnic conflicts. The reason was simple. The battle for a Tamil homeland was largely confined to the northern and eastern (…)

• Armston-Sheret. Review of Jones, Ryan Tucker, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
  28 May 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Edward Armston-Sheret (Institute of Historical Research)
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  The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
  by Ryan Tucker Jones. Red Leviathan
  University of Chicago Press, 2022 Illustrations. xvii + 269 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-226-62885-1
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  Red Leviathan, by Ryan Tucker Jones, is a well-researched and clearly written book of immense interest to scholars working in a variety of fields. Jones provides a detailed and insightful history of whaling in the Soviet (…)

• Review of Goldstein & Nost eds., The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
  25 February 2023

  Reviewed by Anne-Lise Boyer (University of Arizona) __0__
  The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
  by Jenny Goldstein, Eric Nost, eds.
  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2022. ix + 328 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-1715-8; (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-3250-2
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  At a time when the apparent dematerialization of economies, the hypertrophy of the digital sphere, the predominance of social networks, and the advancement of artificial intelligence value the (…)

• Book Review: Gandhi’s ingenuously reconstructed autobiography | Suhas Borker
  30 July 2021, by Suhas Borker

  RESTLESS AS MERCURY:
  My Life As a Young Man
  by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Edited by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
  Aleph Book Company | January 2021 | 400 p
  ISBN: 9788194874140
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  As I read the preface by Gopalkrishna Gandhi to Restless as Mercury: My Life As A Young Man, I was reminded of what his elder brother and professor of philosophy Ramchandra Gandhi told me 30 years ago. Back in 1991, we were working together to make Jagran aur Gavahi: Tees (…)

• Scanning P.C. Joshi’s Biography | Daya Varma
  18 April 2009, by Daya Varma

  Review Article
  The following review article has been sent to the Mainstream editor on April 6 with a note from the reviewer that reads:
  “I am submitting a review of Gargi Chakravartty’s P.C. Joshi: A Biography for favour of publication in Mainstream weekly. Not living in India, I was able to get the book only a while ago. Nevertheless I feel reviews of this important book reflecting different experiences and perspectives do not get dated. I hope Mainstream will be generous enough to (…)

• Bose’s ’And Quietly Comes the Dawn,
  14 June 2025, by Subhash Gatade

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  And Quietly Comes the Dawn:
  Haryana

• Carol Winkler Review of The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
  18 August 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Carol Winkler (Georgia State University)
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  The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community
  by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
  Columbia University Press
  2016. xix + 211 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17426-8
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  Neil Krishan Aggarwal’s The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate provides a much-needed, theoretically grounded analysis of the cultural and psychological dimensions of the discourse of the Taliban. His book (…)

• Review of Bakhurst’s The Heart of the Matter | Corinna Lotz
  1 February 2025

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  The Heart of the Matter: Ilyenkov, Vygotsky and the Courage of Thought
  by David Bakhurst
  Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2024. 402 pp., pb
  ISBN 9798888902165
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  Reviewed by Corinna Lotz
  Bakhurst plays a kind of devil

• Smith on Moseley, ’Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation’
  7 September 2024

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  Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation
  by Fred Moseley
  Palgrave Macmillan 2023. xxix + 167 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-3-031-13209-4.
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  Reviewed by Jason E. Smith (Art Center College of Design)
  Marx and Method
  For the past few decades, Fred Moseley, a professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College until his recent retirement in 2016, has been a leading figure in (…)

• Review of Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | KS Subramanian
  12 July 2024, by K S Subramanian

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  Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
  by Nandita Haksar
  Speaking Tiger 2023, Rs 399
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  Prelude
  Manipur was an independent kingdom with a constitution of its own when it was forcibly taken over by India in 1949 in the name of national integration. The resulting resistance and insurgencies are characteristic features of the state. State repression (…)