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  • Will the Sun Shine Again in Manipur? | Arup Kumar Sen
    22 June 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

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    Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
    by Nandita Haksar
    Speaking tiger (5 January 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354477011 | ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354477010
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    Manipur is burning with hate and violence since May 2023. We the outsiders do not know what triggered this vicious cycle of violence. Nandita Haksar’s recently published book, Shooting the Sun: Why (…)

  • Review of Goodman’s How the World Ran Out of Everything | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    12 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S Goodman
    Mariner Books New York/Boston Pages: viii + 406; Price: Rs 599
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    It is now politically fashionable in the US to blame China for all the economic ills the world’s richest country is facing. Yet it was the White House and the American monopoly capital that made Beijing what it is now – a global economic (…)

  • Review of Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | KS Subramanian
    12 July 2024, by K S Subramanian

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    Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
    by Nandita Haksar
    Speaking Tiger 2023, Rs 399
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    Prelude
    Manipur was an independent kingdom with a constitution of its own when it was forcibly taken over by India in 1949 in the name of national integration. The resulting resistance and insurgencies are characteristic features of the state. State (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Revisiting the 1943 Bengal Famine | Arup Kumar Sen
    19 July 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

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    The Bengal famine of 1943 has found expressions in the academic discourse over the years. Amartya Sen’s Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981) and Paul R. Greenough’s Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-44 (Oxford University Press, 1982) are classic books on the subject. Madhusree Mukerjee’s more recent book titled Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (…)

  • Review of Aruna Roy’s "The Personal Is Political"
    19 July 2024, by Sagari Chhabra

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    The Personal Is Political: An Activist’s Memoir
    by Aruna Roy
    Harpercollins India
    2024
    Pages: 272
    ISBN-10

  • Scholarly Inauguration Of New Genre Of Biography | Vijay Kumar
    26 July 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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    Of Law And Life by Upendra Baxi
    in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sruti Chaganti
    Orient BlackSwan 2024 Pages 582 | Price Rs.2300/-
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    The Book: OF LAW AND LIFE: Upendra Baxi in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sruti Chaganti is a unique book. It has inaugurated radically new genre which straddles rich and varied forms. It is certainly not an (…)

  • The lessons from Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday misery | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    26 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community
    by Rohan Gunaratna
    Penguin Books Pages: lxxvi + 238 Price: Singapore$ 28.90 __0__
    It was sheer incompetence at the highest level of governance that helped the Islamic State to devastate Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in 2019, slaughtering 275 people and injuring almost 600. The suicide bombings were the worst terrorist onslaught by the IS outside the Iraqi (…)

  • Chandrashekhar Azad - latest biography of an iconic revolutionary | Chaman Lal
    26 July 2024, by Chaman Lal

    To mark 23rd July birth anniversary of Azad
    Two names are most evocative names among Indian revolutionaries of freedom struggle. Both were comrade in arms. Chandershekhar Azad was the Commander-in-chief of Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), who was named as Balraj in Bhagat Singh handwritten posters on the assassination of Lahore ASP, J P Saunders. Another significant document-Philosophy of the Bomb. Authored mainly by Bhagwati Charan Vohra but improvised with Azad (…)

  • Review of Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Edited by Jaya Mehta | K.S. Chalam
    3 August 2024

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    Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Conceptualization: Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, Editor: Jaya Mehta Aakar Books, Delhi
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    Twenty First century India view the images of struggles that suit its history, economic structure and social base to get rid of an exploitative system that is more entrenched today than what was imagined under Imperialism during the last century. In fact, the Freedom movement in India had (…)