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• 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 REVIEWblanc]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 (…)

• A Report Card on India
  11 October 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  A recently published book, To Kill A Democracy: India

• Ghosal’s Review of The Lone Wolf by Neha Dwivedi
  9 December 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Review by Joydip Ghosal
  __0__ The Lone Wolf The Untold Story of the Rescue of Sheikh Hasina by Neha Dwivedi
  Penguin Veer 2021 ISBN: 9780143452720 https://www.penguin.co.in/book/the-lone-wolf/
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  Neha Dwivedi was the daughter of a Kargil martyr. After her father’s untimely demise she found solace in writing. She is a child feeding specialist and child birth educator. She deeply believes in inspirational healing power of stories. Her book The Lone Wolf : The Untold (…)

• Review of Rossen Djagalov’s, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds | Joshua First
  20 February 2021

  Rossen Djagalov. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds. Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00109-6; $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00110-2.
  Reviewed by Joshua First (The University of Mississippi) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
  Rossen Djagalov begins his book, From (…)

• Burn Manipur, Burn! Documenting State-Sponsored Brutalities | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  19 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Viewing Indian Polity from the Prism of Manipur: A Compendium on the Continuing Manipur Conflict and Crisis
  Compiled by: Dr Syeda Hameed, Clifton D’Rozario
  Manak Publications, USA Pages: 119; Price: Rs 400/$ 15
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  There cannot be a much better example than Manipur to prove the abject and colossal failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-touted and supposedly magical “double engine government”.
  Modi’s long silence on (…)

• An extraordinary memoir of an acid attack survivor | Joydip Ghosal
  19 January 2024

  BOOK 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 (…)

• Vergara on Hutchison, ’Workers Like All the Rest of Them
  11 June 2022

  Reviewed by Ángela Vergara (California State University)
  __0__ Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
  Durham: Duke University Press 2022 228 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1489-8; (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1395-2.
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  The history of Chile’s paid domestic workers has remained largely invisible. Labor studies do not mention their struggles and unionization efforts or consider the (…)

• Clevenger’s Review of Levett, G, ed., Sport in History Podcast
  5 March 2022

  Reviewed by Samuel Clevenger (Towson University)
  __0__ Sport in History Podcast. United Kingdom:
  British Society of Sports History, 2020-21
  by Geoff Levett, ed.
  Podcast, https://www.sportinhistory.org/categories/podcast __0__ Published on H-Podcast (February, 2022)
  Since 2020, the British Society for Sports History (BSSH), self-described as the United Kingdom’s “leading scholarly society for the history of sport,” has produced a podcast titled Sport in History Podcast. As of this (…)

• Book Review: The Scars of Democracy - Theodor Adorno and the crises of liberalism | Peter E. Gordon
  27 January 2024

  BOOK REVIEW
  Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism
  By Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban, trans.
  On April 6, 1967, Theodor W. Adorno accepted an invitation from the Association of Socialist Students at the University of Vienna to deliver a lecture on “aspects of the new right-wing extremism.” The topic held a special urgency: The National Democratic Party, a recently founded neofascist group in West Germany, was surging in popularity and would soon surpass the official 5 percent (…)

• The Rainbow that was Homi J Bhabha | Papri Sri Raman
  22 April 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  Let Us Talk About Bhabha by S P K Gupta
  Pages 818 e-book price in India Rs 50 Evelyn Publishers ISBN 81-90004175
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  Homi Jehangir Bhabha has always been a mysterious character in science history.
  The man died almost 60 years ago and had lived for more than fifty years before that. In the land of his birth, he is revered almost like a god, especially by the communal, right-wing, jingoist lot for he is ‘the father of India’s nuclear programme’, the man who (…)