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Rabindranath Tagore: Among Saints Bipul Kumar Gangopadhyay
Translators: Swaraj Kumar Chakrabarti and Dr Amitava Sanyal
Vitasta 163pages; Price: Rs 395 ISBN-10 : 8119670892 ISBN-13 : 978-8119670895
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To the world at large, Rabindranath Tagore is an icon in literature and philosophy, a man deeply committed to the idea of India, a deserving Nobel laureate, and a rarity among geniuses who wrote the national anthem of not one but two countries. Not much is (…)
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Spiritual Journeys | M.R. Narayan Swamy
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An extraordinary memoir of an acid attack survivor | Joydip Ghosal
19 January 2024BOOK REVIEW
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Being Reshma Reshma Qureshi with Tania Singh
Pan Macmillan India
248 pages
ISBN-978-93-86215-52-9
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Being Reshma, The Extraordinary Story of an Acid-Attack Survivor Who Took the World by Storm by Reshma Qureshi is haunting and tragic. She and Tania Singh penned the memoir. This book is not only an exposition on acid attack or her craving for justice. It is more than that.
Tania Singh is the CEO of Make Love Not Scars. Throughout the book her empathy (…) -
A Hard Look at Indian Muslims and Secularism | M.R. Narayan Swamy
27 January 2024, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Polarised Times: Living in India Today Anil Maheshwari
Vitasta; Pages: xx + 398; Price: Rs 599
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Veteran journalist Anil Maheshwari is as secular as any Indian can be. He is emphatic that labelling the entire Muslim community as anti-national is both grossly unfair and goes against democratic values. Also, Indian Muslims are not answerable for the wrongs committed in (or by) Pakistan. And they are equally not responsible to today’s Hindus for the wrongs the (…) -
Emergency Raj to Modi Raj
- Second Coming of the Nightmare? | Sukla Sen
9 March 2024, by Sukla Sen[blanc][fond noir]BOOK REVIEW[/fond noir][/blanc]
Keeping Up the Good Fight From the Emergency to the Present Day by Prabir Purkayastha
LeftWord Books, New Delhi
2023 230 pages Paperback 978-93-92018-97-8 Ebook 978-93-92018-58-9
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The Context
The rather slim volume, Keeping Up The Good Fight: From The Emergency To The Present Day, by Prabir Purkayastha, having some 230 pages in all – that includes, inter alia, a Foreword and seven sections of the main text plus customary (…) -
Review of Khan’s City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh | Sajad Ahmad Dar
3 February 2024BOOK REVIEW
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City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan
Harper Collins India 2023 Pages: 297 Price: INR 599/- (Hardcover) ISBN-10 : 9356998248 ISBN-13 : 978-9356998247
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The book under review is a memoir of a young Muslim. It explores the everyday Hindu-Muslim strifes in the U.K (Upar Kot, not to be confused with the United Kingdom), a part of the town of Aligarh (130 kms southeast of Delhi) in Uttar Pradesh, since the 1990s. The memoir can partly (…) -
Review of Singh’s Caste, State and Society: Degrees of Democracy in North India | Radhakanta Barik
3 February 2024, by Radhakanta Barik[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
by Radhakanta Barik
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Caste, State and Society:
Degrees of Democracy in North India
by Jagpal Singh
Routledge India 2021 / 330 Pages ISBN 9780367559748 __0__
It is an interesting work to explain the position of MBC (Most backward castes) in the context of social economic and political changes happened after Independence. This is a rare study with detailed analysis of capitalism and its impact on the various castes (…) -
Review of Becker & other’s Transnational Communism across the Americas | Thomas Field
24 February 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
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Transnational Communism across the Americas by Marc Becker, Margaret Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob A. Zumoff
University of Illinois Press 2023. 288 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04522-6 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08736-3
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Despite its title, which hints at an expansive pretense, Transnational Communism across the Americas succeeds in a focused goal: better understanding the role of orthodox, Moscow-backed Communism in Latin (…) -
Woodard’s Review of ’Toxic Exposures’ by Susan L Smith
9 February 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
Reviewed by Scott C. Woodard
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Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
by Susan L Smith
Rutgers University Press Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series 2017. 209 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-8609-0
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Susan L. Smith’s Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States gathers a rich and thoroughly documented collection (…) -
An X-Ray of Britain’s scheming and India’s follies on China | M.R. Narayan Swamy
17 February 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir] __0__ Cross Winds: Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over China; by Vijay Gokhale
Vintage/Penguin Random House
Pages: xvii + 235; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 : 0670099910 ISBN-13 : 978-0670099917 Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s scholarly study is a pointer that Jawaharlal Nehru may not have been the biggest villain of India’s disastrous policy on China after all. Based on startling archival material, Gokhale’s (…) -
Ruble’s Review of Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland
17 February 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
Reviewed by Alexandria Ruble (University of Idaho)
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Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2022. viii + 239 pp. ISBN: 9780197267110
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In many societies, even today, the voices of women who have endured domestic violence remain muted. Jane Freeland’s fantastic new monograph provides survivors and the (…)