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• Review of Stanley’s How Fascism Works | Waheed Ahmad Rather
  19 July 2025

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  How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
  by Jason Stanley
  Random House
  2018, xix, 218 pp, Price. Rs 582.00
  (Hardcover), ISBN 978-0-525-51183-0
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  Jason Stanley

• Review of K Saradamoni’s ’In Search of Answers: A Memoir’ I B Madhavan
  30 September 2023, by B. Madhavan

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  by B Madhavan
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  In Search of Answers: A Memoir by K Saradamoni
  Tulika Books August 2023 245 Pages ISBN : 978-81-958394-0-7
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  Studying in the university, one meets students who are unsure where the discipline of economics would take them. Many see it as a degree that would land them high-paying jobs in consultancies and other corporate firms.
  Fortunately, there are still a lot of people who are disillusioned by the model-building part of their courses and (…)

• 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 (…)

• Review of Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam | Francis R. Bradley
  9 September 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Francis R. Bradley (Pratt Institute)
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  Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Van Minh and Jazz in Hanoi by Stan BH. Minh Tan-Tangbau
  University Press of Mississippi 2021. 320 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4968-3633-5; (paper), ISBN 978-1-4968-3634-2
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  Stan BH Tan-Tangbau collaborated with saxophonist Quyền Vӑn Minh to write the first major history of jazz in Vietnam. Minh is the central figure in the book’s narrative and he writes (…)

• Is Our Democracy Dying? | Papri Sri Raman
  13 August 2022, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State by Josy Joseph
  Context-Westland 2021 Rs 454 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390679532 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390679539
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  I WAS TALKING to a journalist friend across a 5G spectrum 2000 km away, asking her to pick up the July issue of the Caravan magazine that features the Rise and Fall of the NIA. She said, ‘I am really scared. Fall does not mean it does not exist’.
  The subject had come up in the context of an interview she had (…)

• Review of Abbas’s Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb |
  13 April 2025

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  Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance
  by Hassan Abbas
  Oxford University Press
  2018. 356 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-090157-8
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  Reviewed by Raymond Whisenhunt (Air University, Air War College)
  Pakistan

• US Internment in the Second World War | Jean-Michel Turcotte
  3 June 2022

  Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Leibniz Institute for European History) __0__
  Marilyn Grace Miller. Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 296 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8071-7527-9.
  John E. Schmitz. Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. (…)

• The Rafale Deal: A Chit on Our Conscience | Papri Sri Raman
  21 January 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  The Rafale Deal-Flying Lies:
  The Role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India’s Biggest Defence Scandal
  by Ravi Nair & Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
  Publisher: Paranjoy
  Pages:560
  Price: Rs 795
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  IN 1987, VP SINGH, the ruling party’s Rajya Sabha leader and a sitting minister (who had held powerful portfolios like finance and defence) in a popularly elected government went around pointing to a chit in his pocket. My parliament reporter friends used to (…)

• Book Review: Rowe-McCulloch on Enstad, ’Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II’
  5 December 2020

  Johannes D. Enstad. Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 272 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42126-3; $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-43166-8.
  Reviewed by Maris Rowe-McCulloch (University of Regina) Published on H-Russia (July, 2020) Commissioned by Oleksa Drachewych (Western University)
  Johannes Enstad’s Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II is a history of the (…)

• Abou-Nemeh’s Review of Sandrine Parageau’s The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France
  19 January 2024

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington)
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  The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France. by Sandrine Parageau
  Stanford: Stanford University Press 2023. viii + 254 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-3256-1 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3531-9
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  What role did ignorance play in René Descartes’s philosophy and the experimental philosophy of the Royal Society of London? How did enduring Christian anxieties about the pursuit of ignorance (…)