Mainstream WeeklyBOOK REVIEW
by Yogesh Puri
Gopinath Bardoloi, “The Assam Problem” and Nehru’s Centre by Nirode K. Barooah; Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati; 2010; pp. 675.
“...The subject I have touched in this book and the material used for the purpose are still largely untouched and unknown….No one else has cared to study Bardoloi in such depth as the present author.” (p. ix) Indeed, this is not a tall or boastful claim by the author. The claim is convincingly vindicated by his (…)
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Excellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period
18 August 2013 -
Social justice warriors effecting the change | Joydip Ghosal
10 February 2023Review Joydip Ghosal *
__0__ Being the Change: In the Footsteps of the Mahatma
by Ashutosh Salil, Barkha Mathur
HarperCollins India (23 September 2022) Paperback : 176 pages ISBN-10 : 9356291985 ISBN-13 : 978-9356291980
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The only way to find God is to see Him in His creation and be one with it. This can only be done by service of all…..My countrymen are my nearest neighbours. They have become so helpless, so resourceless, so inert that I must concentrate myself on (…) -
Review of Fujiwara & Marples (eds.), Hiroshima-75
22 February 2025[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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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 (…) -
Dwindling Loyalty of India
9 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc] fond noir]
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Secession of the Successful: The Flight out of New India
by Sanjaya Baru
Penguin/Viking
Pages: xxix + 289
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How Western Generosity Helped Stalin Crush Hitler | M.R. Narayan Swamy
24 August 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War by Giles Milton
John Murray (Hachette India) May 2024 Pages: ix + 372; Price: Rs 999 ISBN: 978-1529398519
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There can be no doubt that steely and raw courage proved the tripping point in the beleaguered Soviet Union’s near impossible military triumph over Germany in World War II. At a time when it was widely feared that Hitler would overrun Moscow after having (…) -
Review of Singh’s Caste, State and Society: Degrees of Democracy in North India | Radhakanta Barik
3 February 2024, by Radhakanta Barik[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
by Radhakanta Barik
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Caste, State and Society:
Degrees of Democracy in North India
by Jagpal Singh
Routledge India 2021 / 330 Pages ISBN 9780367559748 __0__
It is an interesting work to explain the position of MBC (Most backward castes) in the context of social economic and political changes happened after Independence. This is a rare study with detailed analysis of capitalism and its impact on the various castes specifically (…) -
Maxson on Cooley, ’The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance’
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A comprehensive document on strides of the Indian army during the Second World War | Joydip Ghosal
20 May 2023BOOK REVIEW
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Saving the World from Hitler by R. Prasannan
Manorama Books
• ISBN-10 : 8189004395 • ISBN-13 : 978-8189004392
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Saving the World from Hitler, India’s battle in world war II a recent contribution to the literature of the second world war is a valuable account that sheds light on the unknown aspect i.e. the gallantry and display of valour on the battlefield by Indian soldiers. Written in a racy style and interspersed with curious (…) -
Review of Pataguni’s Foreign Policy Decision Making In India | P.S. Jayaramu
19 March, by P S Jayaramu[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Foreign Policy Decision Making In India : A Political Psychological Perspective
by S. S. Patagundi
Rawat Publications
2025, Pp 201, Price: Rs 1095
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This above book by Dr. Patagundi, former Professor of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, is the product of his research as a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Sicial Science Research(ICSSR), New Delhi, a few years ago. The book is actually brought out by the (…) -
Celebrating Multi-Cultural Lives and the Possible India | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
26 August 2022Book Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
__0__ Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes from a Khichdi Family by Seema Chishti
Harper Collins, Publishers India 2022 189 pages ISBN-10 : 9354895883 ISBN-13 : 978-9354895883 __0__
Seema Chishti’s slim book is a tribute to her parents, and to the secular, multi-cultural “mini-India” that they created. Sumitra Bai and Anees Mohammed Chishti came together across region (she from Karnataka, he from Uttar Pradesh), religion (her Kayasth (…)