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• Review of Minami’s, People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold Wa
  17 August 2025

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  People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War
  by Kazushi Minami
  Cornell University Press
  2024. 270 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-7415-7
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  Reviewed by Yanqiu Zheng (St. Lawrence University)
  Kazushi Minami

• Emergency Raj to Modi Raj
 - Second Coming of the Nightmare? | Sukla Sen
  9 March 2024, by Sukla Sen

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  Keeping Up the Good Fight From the Emergency to the Present Day by Prabir Purkayastha
  LeftWord Books, New Delhi
  2023 230 pages Paperback 978-93-92018-97-8 Ebook 978-93-92018-58-9
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  The Context


  The rather slim volume, Keeping Up The Good Fight: From The Emergency To The Present Day, by Prabir Purkayastha, having some 230 pages in all – that includes, inter alia, a Foreword and seven sections of the main text plus customary (…)

• How Development Has Become Nature’s Enemy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  17 June 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Marginlands:
  Indian Landscapes on the Brink
  by Arati Kumar Rao
  Picador India
  Pages: 240
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9395624434
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  Man’s unending penchant for ’development’ is triggering a disaster of epic proportions all across India – and probably in much of the so-called developing world. This is why gigantic projects have deepened the very problems they were supposed to resolve, why urban landscapes have turned a veritable foe for (…)

• Alice Oates. Review of Grossman, Sara J., Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
  15 March 2024

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  by Alice Oates
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  Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
  by Sara J. Grossman
  Duke University Press 2023. Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-2502-3 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-2005-9
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  Immeasurable Weather is the story of “how settler colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriachal power informed, upheld, and bolstered meteorological science and data (…)

• Woodard’s Review of ’Toxic Exposures’ by Susan L Smith
  9 February 2024

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  Reviewed by Scott C. Woodard
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  Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
  by Susan L Smith
  Rutgers University Press Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series 2017. 209 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-8609-0
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  Susan L. Smith’s Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States gathers a rich and thoroughly documented collection of (…)

• Book Review: Can India’s public universities be remodelled? | P.S. Jayaramu
  15 October 2022, by P S Jayaramu

  Reviewd by P.S. Jayaramu
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  Remodelling the Universities:
  Meeting Challenges of the 21st Century
  by Srinivas K. Saidapur
  (New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers, 2022, Pages189, Hard Bound, Price Rs. 795)
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  (30th September, 2022)
  The author of this book Dr. Srinivas K. Saidapur is a well known Scientist, thinker and educational administrator, having served Karnatak University, Dharwad, for long years as Professor of Zoology and Vice Chancellor. He is the recipient of many (…)

• Book Review: Hippies in the Soviet Union | Alexander Vari
  16 September 2022

  Reviewed by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
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  Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland.
  by Juliane Furst
  Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021 496 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-109251-0 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-878832-4
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  Although hippiedom emerged first in the 1960s in the United States, attracting scholarly attention from early on, there is a rising interest in contemporary academia in exploring the hippie phenomenon as a global one.[1] For instance, (…)

• Book Review: What Can India do in Afghanistan? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  1 July 2022

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  Afghanistan: The New Great Game
  Edited by Alok Bansal
  Pentagon Press LLP; Pages: 201; Price: Rs 895 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390095492
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  Now that America has blundered and Pakistan has scored a strategic victory with the return of the Taliban, what are India’s options vis-à-vis Afghanistan?
  Can there be a meeting point between a country like India and a radical Islamist outfit like Taliban?
  One of the best known experts on the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, (…)

• Lukas Ley’s Review of The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobbette
  12 April 2024

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  Review by Lukas Ley
  __0__ The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java by Adam Bobbette
  Duke University Press 2023. 248 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-2708-9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-2505-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-2007-3
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  Dandy Volcanoes
  The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobette invites readers to get up close to the formation of the earth. This book is about active volcanoes in Indonesia, whose craters animate both geological (…)

• Review of Srinivasulu Karli’s Caste, Dominance and Resistance
  12 May

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  Caste, Dominance and Resistance