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• Newton’s Review of Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz, eds., Saturation: An Elemental Politics
  13 May 2023

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  Reviewed by Samm Newton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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  Saturation: An Elemental Politics
  Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz, eds.
  Duke University Press
  2021. xii + 332 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-1304-4 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1146-0
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  Saturation: An Elemental Politics, edited by Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz, is a rich and varied collection of essays that offers a multidisciplinary foray into how the concept of saturati can be employed as an interpretive lens (…)

• The Rainbow that was Homi J Bhabha | Papri Sri Raman
  22 April 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  Let Us Talk About Bhabha by S P K Gupta
  Pages 818 e-book price in India Rs 50 Evelyn Publishers ISBN 81-90004175
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  Homi Jehangir Bhabha has always been a mysterious character in science history.
  The man died almost 60 years ago and had lived for more than fifty years before that. In the land of his birth, he is revered almost like a god, especially by the communal, right-wing, jingoist lot for he is ‘the father of India’s nuclear programme’, the man who (…)

• Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 | Ankhi Mukherjee
  22 June 2024

  June 21, 2024
  Brotherless Night is an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, an awakening from tribal loyalties into new-found identity and agency. It is set in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, during the civil war between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese ethnic majority and the country’s Tamil minority. Between 1983 and 2009, this bitter conflict resulted in the deaths of around 100,000 people and displaced approximately 800,000 more.
  The protagonist, Sashikala Kulenthiren, a young Tamil woman, is a teenager when (…)

• A British View of Colonial India | M R Narayan Swamy
  30 July 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
  by Roderick Matthews
  HarperCollins India
  20 June 2021
  Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 440 pages
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354227325 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354227325
  Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India by Roderick Matthews https://www.amazon.in/dp/9354227325/
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  If freelance writer Roderick Matthews is to be believed, Indians complain too much about British (mis)rule of the sprawling (…)

• Review: No nation for women, reportage on rape from India | Joydip Ghosal
  1 July 2023

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  by Joydip Ghosal
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  No nation for women, reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy
  by Priyanka Dubey
  Simon & Schuster India 2019 / 320 pages ISBN- 978-93-86797-09-4 __0__
  No nation for women: Reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy is the outcome of an intangible confluence of the private and lived experience of suffering mass. It becomes amply clear that while authoring the book the writer unequivocally empathises with (…)

• Review of Tripathi and Arun’s edited Volume on Democracy in Trouble | Bharat Dogra
  29 March 2024, by Bharat Dogra

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  These are difficult times for democracy and this book on democracy in Hindi has thus been published at just the right time. Although it is mainly centered on India, it also ventures from time to time to comment on the situation in other parts of the world too.
  Edited by Arun Kumar Tripathi and A.K. Arun, two names very familiar to Hindi readers, this book titled ‘Jantantra ki Jarein’ (‘Roots of Democracy’) has essays by several writers known (…)

• Delhi Model: When good governance and trickle-up economics merged | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  15 February 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• Review of Kirkwood’s, Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900
  7 October 2023

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  Reviewed by Jeff S. Nagy (University of Michigan)
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  Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood University of Minnesota Press 2022. vii + 235 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1253-6 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1254-3
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  This isn’t your parents’ history of computing. It would have to be at least your great-grandparents’. Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 finds a prehistory for digital (…)

• Powerful endeavour to counter the identity of the country on an ascriptive criteria | Naveen R Nath
  21 October 2023

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  The Theory of the Basic Structure: Saviour of the Constitution and Democracy
  by Vijay Kumar
  Aakar Books Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 202 pages ISBN‏ : ‎ 9789350028278 Price: Rs.595/-
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  The theory of the ‘basic structure’ of the constitution propounded by the largest–ever bench of 13 judge by the Supreme Court in historic Kesavanand Bharti is in news, not only for 50 years of its formulation, but also for well-orchestrated attack on the theory by the former Chief (…)

• Review of Salman Rushdie’s Knife | Rishav Sharma
  1 June 2024

  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738826/knife-by-salman-rushdie/
  Je Suis Salman
  On 12.08.2022, Salman Rushdie was at the amphitheater in Chautauqua, New York to talk about the censorship and security of writers in their country. In a harrowing incident at the venue, he was brutally stabbed multiple times by a religious fanatic, whom the author chooses not to name but call him A. The attack must not be gauged as an isolated incident of violence but an act to terrorize an artist. (…)