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• Why Nature Turned Furious on Kedarnath Region? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  18 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Raging Himalayas and A Warming Planet: Recollections of the 2003 Himalayan Floods and Reflections on Global Warning by Asokan Vengassery Krishnan
  Konark ISBN: 9788195678693 Pages: 210; Price: Rs 495
  __0__ Even as he entered the scenic Himalayan region of Kedarnath in June 2003, Asokan Krishnan felt disgusted on seeing the ugly all-round construction in brazen violation of the environment. There were plenty of multi-storey lodges and hotels built on the delicate (…)

• Is Our Democracy Dying? | Papri Sri Raman
  13 August 2022, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State by Josy Joseph
  Context-Westland 2021 Rs 454 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390679532 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390679539
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  I WAS TALKING to a journalist friend across a 5G spectrum 2000 km away, asking her to pick up the July issue of the Caravan magazine that features the Rise and Fall of the NIA. She said, ‘I am really scared. Fall does not mean it does not exist’.
  The subject had come up in the context of an interview she had (…)

• US Internment in the Second World War | Jean-Michel Turcotte
  3 June 2022

  Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Leibniz Institute for European History) __0__
  Marilyn Grace Miller. Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 296 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8071-7527-9.
  John E. Schmitz. Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. (…)

• Book Review: Can India’s public universities be remodelled? | P.S. Jayaramu
  15 October 2022, by P S Jayaramu

  Reviewd by P.S. Jayaramu
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  Remodelling the Universities:
  Meeting Challenges of the 21st Century
  by Srinivas K. Saidapur
  (New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers, 2022, Pages189, Hard Bound, Price Rs. 795)
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  (30th September, 2022)
  The author of this book Dr. Srinivas K. Saidapur is a well known Scientist, thinker and educational administrator, having served Karnatak University, Dharwad, for long years as Professor of Zoology and Vice Chancellor. He is the recipient of many (…)

• 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 (…)

• Review: No nation for women, reportage on rape from India | Joydip Ghosal
  1 July 2023

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  by Joydip Ghosal
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  No nation for women, reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy
  by Priyanka Dubey
  Simon & Schuster India 2019 / 320 pages ISBN- 978-93-86797-09-4 __0__
  No nation for women: Reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy is the outcome of an intangible confluence of the private and lived experience of suffering mass. It becomes amply clear that while authoring the book the writer unequivocally empathises with (…)

• 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 (…)

• The ground-breaking theorisation on the people as co-authors of the constitution and their central role as constitutional actors | Vijay Kumar
  8 November 2025, by Vijay Kumar

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  Assembling India

• Review Essay: ‘Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi’, by Jairam Ramesh | KS Subramanian
  8 May 2021

  by KS Subramanian
  Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi by Jairam Ramesh Simon & Schuster, India, 2018, pp.518, Price Rs. 799
  This remarkable book is about Parmeshwar Narain Haksar arguably India’s most influential and powerful civil servant under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
  Haksar was Indira Gandhi’s alter ego during her period of glory. The eminent administrator and diplomat, was educated in Allahabad and London; and was called to the Bar from Lincoln ‘s Inn. He (…)

• Carol Winkler Review of The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
  18 August 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Carol Winkler (Georgia State University)
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  The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community
  by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
  Columbia University Press
  2016. xix + 211 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17426-8
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  Neil Krishan Aggarwal’s The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate provides a much-needed, theoretically grounded analysis of the cultural and psychological dimensions of the discourse of the Taliban. His book (…)