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  • For Others’ Sins, Ordinary Afghans Suffer | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    31 August 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Return of the Taliban: State, Society and Terror
    by Apratim Mukarji
    Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd 2023, Pages: lii + 292 ISBN-10 8119670035 ISBN-13 978-8119670031
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    With very little hope that the Taliban may become a responsive administration, one does not know when millions of Afghans can even dream of a better tomorrow.
    This is the price ordinary Afghan men, women and children are today paying for the needless aggression (…)

  • Subramanian’s Review of Kathmandu Chronicle by Rajan and Thakur
    5 October 2024, by K S Subramanian

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    Kathmandu Chronicle
    Reclaiming India

  • Review of Fujiwara & Marples (eds.), Hiroshima-75
    22 February 2025

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    Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts
    by Aya Fujiwara, David R. Marples, eds.
    ibidem Verlag, 2020. 307 pp.
    (paper), ISBN 978-3-8382-1398-9
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    Reviewed by Jonathan Runnels (Air University, Air War College)
    In 2020, Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples published Hiroshima-75, an edited collection commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of dropping the nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The aftermath (…)

  • Indian State Kills a Muslim’s Soul | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    24 February 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    The Diary of Gul Mohammad: A Kashmiri Muslim Boy’s Journey from Kashmir to Kerala
    by Humra Quraishi
    Oxford University Press Pages: x + 172; Price: Rs 185
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    He is all of 14 years when Gul Mohammad’s worried family decides it will be best if he is shifted out of the Kashmir Valley for his own safety. The situation in Kashmir is pathetic, what with trigger-happy security personnel viewing virtually every Kashmiri youth as (…)

  • Review of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Selected Stories | Malathi Suramanian
    11 October 2025

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    Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
    by Banu Mushtaq
    (Booker Prize Winner 2025)
    Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
    Penguin Random House India
    2024
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    Reviewed by Dr. Malathi Suramanian

  • A RAW officer’s ordeal in Pakistan & Beyond | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    27 February 2021

    by M.R. Narayan Swamy
    Terror in Islamabad by Amar Bhushan HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 171; Price: Rs 250
    This is a work of fiction only in name. This is an outstanding even if bone-chilling tribute to an Indian intelligence officer who for three long years fooled Pakistan’s ISI as he ran a network spread all over that country. Unable to digest their failure, ISI bullies abducted and brutally tortured him just before he was to return to India for good. Miraculously, the man (…)

  • Bilston on Taylor, ’Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today’
    10 January

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    Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today
    by Judith M. Taylor
    University of New Mexico Press
    2025. Illustrations. 218 pp.
    (paper), ISBN 978-0-8263-6783-9.
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    Reviewed by Sarah Bilston (Trinity College)
    Judith M. Taylor

  • Why Alternative Development Paradigm Matters? | Jos Chathukulam
    15 March 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

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    Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production
    by Sunil Ray
    Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd (Sharmistha Dutta on behalf of Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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    Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production by Sunil Ray introduces to us a novel development framework

  • Review of Bonnell, Andrew G., Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity | Jens-Uwe Guettel
    25 October 2025

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    Socialism, and Modernity
    by Andrew G. Bonnell. Robert Michels
    Oxford University Press
    2022
    viii + 282 pp.
    (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-287184-8
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    Sociology and Socialism
    Andrew G. Bonnell

  • Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes ‘degrowth communism’ as the solution | Timothée Parrique
    18 March 2023

    by Timothée Parrique
    March 3, 2023
    I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo University has made a name for himself arguing that “degrowth communism” could halt the escalating climate emergency.
    Kohei Saito, the bestselling author of Capital in the Anthropocene, is back with a new book: Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of (…)