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• Indian State Kills a Muslim’s Soul | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  24 February 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Diary of Gul Mohammad: A Kashmiri Muslim Boy’s Journey from Kashmir to Kerala
  by Humra Quraishi
  Oxford University Press Pages: x + 172; Price: Rs 185
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  He is all of 14 years when Gul Mohammad’s worried family decides it will be best if he is shifted out of the Kashmir Valley for his own safety. The situation in Kashmir is pathetic, what with trigger-happy security personnel viewing virtually every Kashmiri youth as (…)

• Johanne Marais’s Review of Chirimuuta, M., The Brain Abstracted
  23 November 2024

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  The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
  by M. Chirimuuta
  MIT Press
  March 5, 2024, 376 pp.
  Paperback ISBN: 9780262548045
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  Reviewed by Johann

• Reclaiming a Revolutionary: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani; Interrogating Historiography | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
  22 May 2021, by Deepti Priya Mehrotra

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  Geraldine Forbes—Lost Letters and Feminist History—The Political Friendship of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Sarala Devi Chaudhurani. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2020.
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  Early in 1920, 47-year-old Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and 50-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi pledged to write each other at least one letter per day. The intensity of their correspondence, and friendship, lasted barely one year. During this time a few hundred letters passed between them, for (…)

• African Soldiers Remember the Great War | Melvin E. Page
  29 May 2021

  Reviewed by Melvin E. Page (East Tennessee State University)
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  Bakary Diallo, Lamine Senghor. White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I. Translated by Nancy Erber and William Peniston. Edited and introduction by George Robb. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2021. Illustrations. 200 pp. $17.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62466-951-4
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  White War, Black Soldiers is a welcome addition to the growing effort to bring African voices from World War I to an (…)

• Leo Chu Review of ’The Globalization of Wheat by Baranski’
  2 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW Reviewed by Leo Chu (Cambridge University)
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  The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution by Marci Baranski INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment. University of Pittsburgh Press
  2022. 256 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8229-4734-9.
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  When discussing my research with someone from a different field, the term “Green Revolution” does not always ring a bell—people often think it means transition to renewable energy. Among historians, in (…)

• Review: Subramanian on ’Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas’ by Achala Moulik
  23 December 2023, by K S Subramanian

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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 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 (…)

• Indian Spiritual Masters who Fought Orthodoxy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  29 July 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  India’s Greatest Minds: Spiritual Masters, Philosophers, Reformers
  by Mukunda Rao
  Hachette India Pages: 499 Price: Rs 699
  Even hundreds of years after his death, the Sai Baba of Shirdi (1838-1918) remains one of the most widely revered and worshipped saints by millions of Hindus, Muslims and others. Born to Hindu parents and brought up by a fakir, the compassionate saint was a harsh critic of religious orthodoxy and detested the Hindu-Muslim divide. He (…)

• Hiner on Keiser’s ’Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience’
  4 November 2022

  Reviewed by Amanda Hiner (Winthrop University)
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  Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser
  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
  2020. 324 pp
  (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4479-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4477-7
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  Cognitive literary studies is a dynamic and growing field of academic research that explores intersections between cognitive science and literary texts and their production. (…)

• Review of Weiner’s The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  23 August 2025

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