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• Marais’s Review of An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology by Jole Shackelford
  25 May 2024

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  An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology, Volume 1: Biological Rhythms Emerge as a Subject of Scientific Research
  by Jole Shackelford
  University of Pittsburgh Press 2022. 332 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4732-5
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  Reviewed by Johanné Marais
  If you are not yet thinking of the cyclical nature in everything, you may want to pick up Jole Shackelford’s An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology, Volume 1: (…)

• Commanding prescription for furthering justice through privileging politics over economics | Vijay Kumar
  25 May 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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  Justice by Means of Democracy
  by Danielle Allen
  Indian Print by Satyam Books Pvt. Ltd. 2023 Page 282 Price Rs.995/-
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  The ‘Theory of Justice’ by John Rawls was published in 1971, and since then has been holding the reign of most original work, at least in the post-second World War. The fundamental of Rawlsian paradigm was challenged first time by Prof. Amartya Sen in ‘Idea of Justice’ in 2009 by shifting the focus from (…)

• The Artist as A Quiet
  17 May 2024

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  Leela Mukherjee A Guileless Modernist

• Choices, Priorities, Freedoms and Mahbub ul Haq | Aijaz Ahmed
  25 May 2024

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  Reflections on Human Development Edited by Mahbub ul Haq
  Oxford University Press Inc. UK
  1996, 272 pages Price: 34 pounds
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  The central theme of Mahbub ul Haq’s book, Reflections on Human Development, revolves around a novel development paradigm centered on human well-being. It argues that while income growth is important, it should not be seen as the sole indicator of development nor as the ultimate goal of human life. (…)

• Review of Iqbal S. Hasnain’s Fault Lines In The Faith | P S Jayaramu
  1 June 2024

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  Fault Lines In The Faith: How events of 1979 shaped the Islamic World
  by Iqbal S. Hasnain
  Rupa
  2023 Pp 279, Price ₹395.
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  Iqbal Syed Hasnain, the author of this book, is a former Pro-Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard and former Vice Chancellor of Calicut University, besides the other assignments he handles. Hasnain has varied interests and the same can be discerned from his interests in Himalayan glaciers and (…)

• Review of Salman Rushdie’s Knife | Rishav Sharma
  1 June 2024

  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738826/knife-by-salman-rushdie/
  Je Suis Salman
  On 12.08.2022, Salman Rushdie was at the amphitheater in Chautauqua, New York to talk about the censorship and security of writers in their country. In a harrowing incident at the venue, he was brutally stabbed multiple times by a religious fanatic, whom the author chooses not to name but call him A. The attack must not be gauged as an isolated incident of violence but an act to terrorize an artist. (…)

• A Candid Autobiography of a Chief Minister | Joydip Ghosal
  7 June 2024

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  One Among You - Vol 1 The Autobiography of M.K Stalin
  (Translated by A.S Panneerselvan)
  Penguin Viking
  2023 | 152 pages
  ISBN-9780670098361
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  ‘One Among You’, The Autobiography of M.K. Stalin is about the first twenty- three years of his life. In the introduction the author says that it is always a pleasure to reflect on the path one has travelled and recollect the past. Everyone’s face glows when we delve deeper into (…)

• Review of Timothy Lorek’s Timothy, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia | Javier Puente
  14 June 2024

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  Review by Javier Puente
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  Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges by Timothy Lorek
  University of North Carolina Press 2023. xxii + 317 pp (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0
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  In September 2016, Colombia’s government and the leadership of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) achieved the unthinkable. After a four-year series of conversations and negotiations, President Juan Manuel Santos (…)

• Maxson on Cooley, ’The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance’
  22 June 2024
• Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 | Ankhi Mukherjee
  22 June 2024

  June 21, 2024
  Brotherless Night is an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, an awakening from tribal loyalties into new-found identity and agency. It is set in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, during the civil war between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese ethnic majority and the country’s Tamil minority. Between 1983 and 2009, this bitter conflict resulted in the deaths of around 100,000 people and displaced approximately 800,000 more.
  The protagonist, Sashikala Kulenthiren, a young Tamil woman, is a teenager when (…)