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by Anshu Srivastava
Pages: 148 Price Rs 995 (hardback)
Routledge, an imprint of Francis & Taylor ISBN: 978-1-032-05489-6 (pbk)
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The title is interesting, any study of a ‘politicised’ middle class is always fascinating, though political labeling is changing rapidly. Who is Middle Class, who Upper Class or Lower can no longer be defined categorically, it is no longer a classically (…)
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The Missing Bridge between Two Volatile Classes | Papri Sri Raman
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Maria Cristina Galmarini. Review of Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, The Afterlife of the ’Soviet Man’
2 December 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Maria Cristina Galmarini (College of William & Mary)
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The Afterlife of the -
Buxton’s Review of Chen, Thomas, Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film
9 December 2023BOOK REVIEW
Review by David Buxton
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Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film
by Thomas Chen
Columbia University Press 2022. 248 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-20400-2; (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-20401-9
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Tiananmen and Censorship in China
Any book about China at present runs the risk of being commandeered by the latent, impending Cold War between China and the United States; an analysis of the former’s political system that highlights its (…) -
Review of India’s National Security Challenges Edited by NN Vohra
16 December 2023, by K S SubramanianReviewed by KS Subramanian IPS (retd)
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India’s National Security Challenges Edited by NN Vohra India International Centre, New Delhi Primus Books
2023 HB ISBN : 978-93-5852-037-8
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This is a collection of articles on India’s national security, edited by N N Vohra former J& K Governor (2008-18) and Life Trustee of the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi, devoted to promotion of discussion on national security and similar issues.
The Covid 19 pandemic had (…) -
Review: Subramanian on ’Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas’ by Achala Moulik
23 December 2023, by K S SubramanianBook Review
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Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas by Achala Moulik
Niyogi Books
2023 | 384 Pages ISBN-10 : 8196405332 ISBN-13 : 978-8196405335
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The author, a civil servant-scholar, has the gift for writing about human love in the midst of violence and conflict. The volume contains two moving ‘novellas’; one on India titled ‘With Fate Conspire’ and the other on Afghanistan titled Wait!
The author’s Note on the first novella draws from Rabindranath Tagore’s dance (…) -
Review: Emily Laurent-Monaghan on ‘Pleasure Erased’ by Catherine Malabou
23 December 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Emily Laurent-Monaghan
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Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought by Catherine Malabou
Polity 2022. 150 pp. ISBN-10 : 1509549935 ISBN-13 : 978-1509549931
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Unlike ‘woman’ or ‘sex’, the clitoris is not an overdetermined signifier. On the contrary, in Pleasure Erased, Catherine Malabou argues that the clitoris, despite its forcible erasure, persists, waiting to be thought. Arguably one of the most dynamic philosophers thinking today, Malabou (…) -
A Marvel that Indian Cities Once Were | M.R. Narayan Swamy
5 January 2024, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW __0__
Indian Cities: Ancient and Medieval by Raghavan Srinivasan
Hachette India Pages: xi + 180; Price: Rs 399 ISBN-10 : 9357312501 ISBN-13 : 978-9357312509 __0__
It is a matter of immense pity that Indians do not build and maintain their cities the way their ancestors did during the Harappan Civilization.
The baths in houses, public wells, bathing areas and high-quality drainage were among the most startling discoveries that archaeologists made when they began (…) -
Ghoshal’s review of Who Killed Moosewala? by Jupinderjit Singh
5 January 2024REVIEW
by Joydip Ghosal
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Who Killed Moosewala? by Jupinderjit Singh
Westland Non-fiction 2023 195 pages ISBN-10 : 9357764615 ISBN-13 : 978-9357764612
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Jupinderjit Singh’s book Who Killed Moosewala ? The Spiralling Story of Violence in Punjab laid bare the different aspects of violence that tormented Punjab for a long time. The author delved deeper into the social and political realties to peel off the layers in order to unearth the menace that shoved a bright (…) -
Review of Postmodern Gandhi & Politics, Ethics and the Self Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj | Chotelal Kumar
12 January 2024, by Chhotelal KumarBOOK REVIEW
by Chotelal Kumar
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Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays
Gandhi in the World and at Home
by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
The University of Chicago Press | 2006 - 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 0226731235
ISBN-13 : 978-0226731230
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo4343100.html
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Politics, Ethics and the Self Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
Edited By Rajeev Bhargava
Routledge India | 2022 - 370 Pages
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Abou-Nemeh’s Review of Sandrine Parageau’s The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France
19 January 2024BOOK 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 (…)