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• Review of Mansoor Khan’s ’ONE: The Story of the Ultimate Myth’ | T Vijayendra
  21 October 2023, by T. Vijayendra

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  by T. Vijayendra
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  ONE: The Story of the Ultimate Myth
  by Mansoor Khan
  Harper Collins India 2023, Pp. 145
  Available at Amazon Rs. 449/-
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  It is a gem of a book! It is a small book, 145 pages. It is a fiction, a novella. Very satisfactory reading! Reminds me of the feeling I got after reading some of the great novellas - Lu Hsun’s ‘The True Story of Ah Q’ or Rajinder Singh Bedi’s ‘Ek Chadar Maili Si’. It has the touch of a film editor – not a single wasted (…)

• Review of Aruna Roy’s "The Personal Is Political"
  19 July 2024, by Sagari Chhabra

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  The Personal Is Political: An Activist’s Memoir
  by Aruna Roy
  Harpercollins India
  2024
  Pages: 272
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• Review: Raghavan on Vijayan’s Midnight’s Borders
  21 October 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

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  Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India
  by Suchitra Vijayan
  Context (an imprint of Westland Publication)
  2021. Pages 320. Rs 699.
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  The Dawn, on Sep 14, 2022, carried a piece on the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, and the last line went this way: “The queen is dead; I hope the system of corruption and looting, of occupation and genocide that she represented perishes too”. Along with these cardinal debaucheries, one would add wanton (…)

• Review of Rashme Sehgal’s The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri | Enakshi Ganguly
  12 March 2021

  Reviewed by Enakshi Ganguly *
  The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri by Rashme Sehgal Mahanadi Books. 2020 [ Available via Amazon]
  Indians love visiting religious destinations. Pilgrims are invited to explore sacred places. The sacred temple of Swami Nityananda who died in 1961 is located in the small village of Ganeshpri around 80 kilometres north of Mumbai and has emerged as a hub for pilgrims from across the world.
  Each of these pilgrim centres has a vast tribe of service providers who (…)

• Review: The French Revolutionary Script in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802
  19 March 2021

  William S. Cormack. Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies: The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2019. 392 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0395-6.
  Reviewed by Grant Kleiser (Columbia University) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2021)
  Those in the United States who are anxious about media misinformation, racial and class tensions, and insurrection might take some comfort in reading William S. Cormack’s (…)

• Who Will Dominate the World? Democrats or Dictators? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  25 March 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman by Charles Dunst Hodder & Stoughton Pages: 428; Price: Rs 799
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  A world increasingly in turmoil is locked in a bitter battle of ideas: democracy versus autocracy. There was a time when it seemed that democracy would simply overwhelm the world barring isolated spots. No more. As international affairs specialist and author Charles Dunst points out, autocracies and dictatorships of (…)

• Hao Chen Review of Price’s Cold War Deceptions
  21 September 2024

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  Cold War Deceptions:
  The Asia Foundation and the CIA
  by David H. Price
  University of Washington Press
  2024. 358 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-75224-2
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  Reviewed by Hao Chen (Dartmouth College)
  In his most recent book, Cold War Deceptions: The Asia Foundation and the CIA, anthropologist and historian David H. Price offers one of the most comprehensive accounts that examines the covert operation and financial maneuvering (…)

• Review of Intondi’s, Saving the World from Nuclear War | Eric Ross
  4 January 2025

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  Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond
  by Vincent J. Intondi
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs Series
  2023. 152 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-4640-0
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  Reviewed by Eric Ross (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  In Saving the World from Nuclear War, Vincent J. Intondi offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of the context (…)

• Review of Hari Singh’s Looking Back with Delight | Subramanian
  12 January 2024, by K S Subramanian

  Reviewed by KS Subramanian
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  Looking Back with Delight: A Memoir by Hari Singh
  Solicitor and Notary Public, England and Wales (Academy of Business Studies, New Delhi)
  pp 320 Price Rs. 890 $ 20.99
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  This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary personality who is solicitor and notary public in the UK and the Wales. The book tells his life experience in India, his land of birth and the UK his land of professional experience as a civil servant, legal luminary and (…)

• 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