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• Review of Solomon’s Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma | Saurav K. Rai
  27 September 2025

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  Lifelines:
  The Traffic of Trauma
  by Harris Solomon
  Duke University Press
  2022. xiv + 286 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1621-2; $27.95
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1885-8.
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  Reviewed by Saurav K. Rai (Gandhi Smriti)
  Cultural theorist and media expert Ravi Sundaram, centering his analysis on Delhi in the 1990s against the backdrop of rising instances of car accidents as private car ownership proliferated, argued that contemporary India is suffused with (…)

• Maddox on Schultz and Gawne and Peregrine, ’The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects’
  9 September 2022

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  The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects by Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne, Peter N. Peregrine, eds. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. Cambridge: MIT Press 2022. 338 pp. $75.00 (paper) ISBN 978-0-262-54320-0.
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  In this edited collection, a group of primarily evolutionary biologists examine the biological adaptations of insect species that “cultivate” primarily fungi as well as other insects (…)

• Cohesive Development: The old is dying, and the new cannot be born | Deborah Darlianmawii, Manik Kumar, Keyoor Pathak
  5 April 2025

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  Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding of Transformative Mode of Production
  by Sunil Ray
  Germinal Publications, Kolkata
  2024
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  The author is hopeful about the future of the world and

• 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 (…)

• Review of Sainath’s The Last Heroes | KS Subramanian
  21 January 2023, by K S Subramanian

  Reviewed by KS Subramanian
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  The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by P Sainath
  (Penguin India) 2022
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  The book is dedicated to the author’s mother whose stories of freedom fighters including those of her father who spent years in British jails inspired him. The author’s grandfather was VV Giri who became President of India after its independence.
  While at university, the author had learnt that almost all the major uprisings against the British had begun in the (…)

• Review of Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts . . . | Gond & Chandravanshi
  29 March 2025

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  Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
  Henry Holt and Company 2018, 160 pages, ?3,230
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  Reviewed by Arun Kumar Gond, Ranjan Kumar Chandravanshi
  This book highlights the importance of avoiding social media. Author Jaron Lanier, a tech expert, critiques big tech and their exploitative practices. He explains how social media harms freedom, real-life interactions, and productivity while (…)

• Thomas Klikauer’s Review of Machines Behaving Badly
  11 November 2023

  Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer
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  Machines Behaving Badly:
  The Morality of AI
  by Toby Walsh
  La Trobe University Press and Black Inc. Press, Collingwood
  2022. 275 pp.
  pb ISBN 9781760643423
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  Toby Walsh begins Machines Behaving Badly by making clear that ‘[i]n reality, artificial intelligence is [not a] conscious robot […] We cannot yet build machines that match the intelligence of a two-year-old […] program computers […] do narrow, focused tasks’ (1). Like a coffee maker (…)

• Review: ‘Interpreting the World to Change It - Essays for Prabhat Patnaik’ | Rishav Sharma
  2 June 2023

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  Interpreting the World to Change It: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik C.P Chandrashekhar and Jayati Ghosh (editors)
  Tulika Books, New Delhi 2018 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9382381937 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9382381938 __0__
  Interpreting the World to Change it: Essays for Prabhat Patnaik is a collection of essays celebrating the life of the stellar Marxist economist Professor Prabhat Patnaik. The contributors include Ashok Mitra, Irfan Habib, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Akeel Bilgrami, Prakash (…)

• Book Review: A Classic on Bangladesh Liberation War | M R Narayan Swamy
  28 December 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Bangladesh War: Report from Ground Zero
  Manas Ghosh
  Niyogi Books
  Pages: 220; Price: Rs 695
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  Pakistan’s military carried out a stinking genocide in East Pakistan in 1971, with the Chinese becoming accomplices in the mass murder, rape and torture. But terrible crimes were committed by the Nixon-Kissinger administration. That they actively came out against the Bengalis of East Pakistan and India is known. Former journalist Manas Ghosh reveals that the US (…)

• Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito
  10 April, by K. Sahadevan

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  Marx in the Anthropocene
  Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
  by Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo
  Cambridge University Press
  15 January 2023 | ISBN: 9781108933544
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  Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito