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• 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 (…)

• When America rained horror on Japan
  30 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It
  by Iain MacGrego
  Constable/Great Britain (Hachette India)
  2025
  ISBN-10: ?1408719517 / Pages: 429; Price: Rs 799
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  It was finally left to a crusading American journalist to puncture Washington

• Testimony Against Silence: Knife by Salman Rushdie and the Dark Mirror to India’s Present | Ismail Salahuddin
  30 August 2025, by Ismail Salahuddin

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  Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  by Salman Rushdie
  Random House
  2024
  ISBN 10: 0593730240
  ISBN 13: 9780593730249
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  There are books that explain, books that imagine, and books that dare. But every once in a while, a book comes along that refuses to be just a book, it becomes a cry, a wound, a reckoning. Salman Rushdie

• Arcimovich on Ayers and Alves and Leal and Hjartarson, ’Globalizing the Avant-Garde’
  23 August 2025

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  Globalizing the Avant-Garde
  David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha, Benedikt Hjartarson, eds.
  Walter de Gruyter
  2025. 499 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 9783111317533
  ISBN-10 : ?3111317536
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  Reviewed by Tania Arcimovich (Erfurt University)
  Globalizing the Avant-Garde, edited by David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha Leal, and Benedikt Hjartarson, continues the European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (…)

• Book Review: Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism | ACG
  11 December 2020

  Review by Anarchist Communist Group (ACG)
  November 23, 2020
  Darch, Colin. Nestor Makhno and rural anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921. Pluto Press.238 pages. £17.99
  I approached this book with some enthusiasm. A new book on the Makhnovist movement using sources previously unreferenced in the English language world. I was sorely disappointed. I should have read Darch’s doctoral thesis on Makhno, where his bias against Makhno and anarchism is immediately apparent. An example of that (…)

• Ghachar Ghochar Waited for Me to Grow Up
  17 August 2025, by Disha

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  Ghachar Ghochar
  by Vivek Shanbhag
  HarperCollins Publishers India
  2015
  124 pages
  ISBN-10: ? 9789351776178
  ISBN-13: ? 978-9351776178
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  Sometimes a story does not unfold for the sake of entertainment or instruction but simply sits in a room, quietly existing, until you are ready to meet it on its own terms. Ghachar Ghochar is not a loud novel, nor is it in a rush to deliver a climax or resolution. It simply waits, almost (…)

• Review of Minami’s, People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold Wa
  17 August 2025

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  People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War
  by Kazushi Minami
  Cornell University Press
  2024. 270 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-7415-7
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  Reviewed by Yanqiu Zheng (St. Lawrence University)
  Kazushi Minami

• Dwindling Loyalty of India
  9 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Secession of the Successful: The Flight out of New India
  by Sanjaya Baru
  Penguin/Viking
  Pages: xxix + 289
  Price: Rs 799

• Iran Stands at a Dangerous Crossroad | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  1 March 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Iran

• Why Alternative Development Paradigm Matters? | Jos Chathukulam
  15 March 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

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  Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production
  by Sunil Ray
  Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd (Sharmistha Dutta on behalf of Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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  Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production by Sunil Ray introduces to us a novel development framework