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• Oh! Orundhuti, Kamon Acho | Papri Sen Sri Raman
  25 October 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  Mother Mary Comes To Me
  by Arundhati Roy
  Publisher: Penguin Random-House, India
  374 pages
  Price: Rs 899
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  Very authoritative reviews of Mother Mary Comes to Me have been published in the first two months of the book

• Book Review: Raza on Kenny’s Populism and Patronage
  2 December 2022

  Reviewed by Aamir Raza
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  Populism and Patronage: Why Populist win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond
  by Paul D. Kenny
  Oxford University Press 2017 Pages 234 Price Rs 545
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  Populism has been a recurrent feature of Global politics since last century. Despite having hostile views about liberal democratic institutions, Populist party across the world have gained astonishing electoral success. Although Populism can persist across the ideological spectrum, Populist threats (…)

• Frens-String on Chastain and Lorek, ’Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America
  12 June 2021

  Reviewer: Joshua Frens-String
  Andra B. Chastain, Timothy Lorek, eds. Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America (INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 366 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-4596-3.
  What events and historical processes should be considered a part of Latin America’s Cold War experience? Who were the Latin American Cold War’s principal protagonists? How did a decades-long (…)

• Review of Bhattacharya’s, Disparate Remedies | Asmita Sarkar
  12 January 2025

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  Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India
  by Nandini Bhattacharya
  McGill-Queen’s University Press
  Intoxicating Histories Series
  2023. xii + 257 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-01753-0
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  Reviewed by Asmita Sarkar (University of Oxford)
  In Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India, Nandini Bhattacharya investigates the historical roots of the contemporary pharmaceutical industry in India. Bhattacharya

• Review: Last among equals by M.R Sharan | Aamir Raza
  20 May 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Aamir Raza
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  Last among equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar’s Villages
  by M.R Sharan Westland Publications 2021 / 229 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390679664 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390679669 __0__
  In India, the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) were established to promote self-governance at the grassroots level and facilitate the social and economic development of rural areas. However, despite initial enthusiasm for this decentralization movement, the system has (…)

• 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 (…)

• A Reality Check on Operation Sindoor |
  19 March, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• A Man Extraordinary Who Coined ’Jai Hind’ | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  28 May 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Abid Hasan Safrani: Netaji’s Comrade-in-Arms
  Compiled by: Ismat Mehdi and Shehbaz Safrani
  Orient BlackSwan
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  He was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s sole Indian companion on his perilous 90-day submarine voyage from Europe to Asia in 1943. He was also the inventor of the INA’s – and subsequently free India’s – patriotic slogan: Jai Hind! If the Japanese had found a third seat for Netaji on what turned out to be his final air (…)

• The Art of Collecting Priceless Books | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  8 April 2023

  BOOK REVIEW The Book Beautiful: A Memoir of Collecting Rare and Fine Books
  by Pradeep Sebastian
  Hachette India Pages: 306; Price: Rs 699
  Bengaluru-based Pradeep Sebastian would have remained a simple bibliophile who venerated bookshops all his life until he began came across books the likes of which he had never seen or handled earlier. And so was born, around 2015, a no-doubt costly but immensely satisfying hobby of chasing and collecting rare and fine books in a (…)

• Gabriele Dietrich on D’Mello’s India After Naxalbari - Unfinished History
  10 April 2021, by Gabriele Dietrich

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  Bernard D’Mello: India After Naxalbari. Unfinished History. Aakar Books 2018
  This meticulously researched book deals with “a thread of history that mainstream historians have tended to either ignore or misinterpret. This account puts it straight into our history books.” Arundhati Roy
  Bernard d’Mello is clearly not a mainstream historian.He has made extraordinary efforts to dig up this hidden history and to make it accessible to readers who are not afraid to face this (…)