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  12 October 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

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• Mark Hurst. Review of Martin, Barbara, Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union
  12 October 2024

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  Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union
  by Barbara Martin
  Academic Studies Press
  2023. 260 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 979-88-87191-81-2.
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  Reviewed by Mark Hurst (Lancaster University)
  During the twentieth century, opposition to the Soviet regime took a variety of shapes and sizes. In the latter years of the Cold War, the Western perception of the so-called Soviet dissident movement was dominated by two (…)

• Memoirs of an Exalite | Sreejith K
  19 October 2024

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  Oranweshanathinte katha
  by K. Venu
  DC Books 2023, 752 pages ISBN: 9789354829383
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  Reviewed by Sreejith K
  In an iconic scene from Sandesham, which has over the years acquired a cult status amongst the Malayalis for its trenchant political satire, a communist party worker, Sreenivasan, during a pennukaanal (would-be bride seeing), after some perfunctory questions on Marxism to the bewilderment of the girl, asks her whether she would be willing to spend the (…)

• Michael Degani Review of Mohsin’s, Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development
  19 October 2024

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  Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development
  by Anto Mohsin
  University of Wisconsin Press
  2023. xvii + 245 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-34540-2
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  Reviewed by Michael Degani (University of Cambridge)
  By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Indonesia

• Sweeping Western Sanctions Fail to Cripple Putin | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  2 November 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring down Russia
  by Stephanie Baker
  Mudlark
  Pages: xiv + 351; Price: Rs 699
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  When Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it heralded the largest land war in Europe since World War II. But there was no way the West was going to go for a direct military confrontation with a country with more nuclear warheads than any other. That would have (…)

• A poignant docu-memoir on the Sikhs of Kashmir | Joydip Ghosal
  2 November 2024

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  Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali
  Manjul Publishing House Pvt Ltd 2024, 308 pages ISBN-10 ? : ? 9355436297 ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-9355436290
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  Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali is a poignant narrative on the Sikhs of Kashmir. In this deeply personal saga, he interweaved their past, present and future which stared at deep abyss of uncertainty. In mainstream media and (…)

• Review of Puia’s Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India | P Kham Sian Muan Zou
  9 November 2024

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  Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India
  by Roluah Puia
  Cambridge University Press
  2023
  ISBN: 9781009346078
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  Reviewed by P Kham Sian Muan Zou
  Roluahpuia

• A Haunting portrait of forgotten Agariyas of Kutch: A Review of Anita Agnihotri’s "The Touch of Salt" | Bhavna Harchandani
  9 November 2024

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  A touch of salt
  By Anita Agnihotri
  Translated by Arunava Sinha
  Penguin Books
  2024 / 180 pages
  ISBN 9780143465812
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  Reviewed by Bhavna Harchandani
  Anita Agnihotri’s "The Touch of Salt", masterfully translated by Arunava Singh, is a poignant and evocative novel that sheds light on the overlooked lives of salt cultivators in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. The eleven-chapter book critically examines the (…)

• Johanne Marais’s Review of Chirimuuta, M., The Brain Abstracted
  23 November 2024

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  The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
  by M. Chirimuuta
  MIT Press
  March 5, 2024, 376 pp.
  Paperback ISBN: 9780262548045
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• Charles Reitz’s Review of The Marcusean Mind
  29 November 2024

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  The Marcusean Mind
  Edited by Eduardo Altheman C. Santos, Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry and Sid Simpson
  Routledge, London
  2025. 602 pp.
  ISBN 9781032462998
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  Reviewed by Charles Reitz
  We are living in world-historical, conflict-ridden times. Many of us have spent our whole professional lives as teachers in the multicultural education reform movement. We have worked with excellent colleagues, but we have faced strong (…)