Mainstream Weeklyby Sukla Sen
Professor Achin Vanaik, to the discerning Indian public in particular, is quite a familiar name—both as a radical intellectual and an activist as well, especially in the field of anti-nuclear peace movement; is a co-recipient, with (late) Praful Bidwai, of the International Peace Bureau’s Sean McBride International Peace Prize for 2000.
Prof. Vanaik, who had started his professional career as a journalist with the Times of India, back in the ’70s, is intellectually, and even (…)
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Indian Left in a Pit: The Way Out? Prof. Achin Vanaik Examines | Sukla Sen
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Lotz on John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
26 March 2021John Bellamy Foster The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020. 687 pp., £30 hb ISBN 9781583678367
Reviewed by Corinna Lotz
[Corinna Lotz’ book Finding Evald Ilyenkov – How a Soviet Philosopher who stood up for dialectics continues to inspire, was published by Real Democracy Movement in April 2019. She co-ordinates International Friends of Ilyenkov. Info@realdemocracymovement.org]
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For too long it has been a cliché that a class-based (…) -
Review of Khan’s City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh | Sajad Ahmad Dar
3 February 2024BOOK REVIEW
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City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan
Harper Collins India 2023 Pages: 297 Price: INR 599/- (Hardcover) ISBN-10 : 9356998248 ISBN-13 : 978-9356998247
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The book under review is a memoir of a young Muslim. It explores the everyday Hindu-Muslim strifes in the U.K (Upar Kot, not to be confused with the United Kingdom), a part of the town of Aligarh (130 kms southeast of Delhi) in Uttar Pradesh, since the 1990s. The memoir can partly (…) -
Review of Brockmann, Sophie, The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
8 April 2022Reviewed by Paul Ramirez (Northwestern University) __0__
The Science of Useful Nature in Central America
by Sophie Brockmann
Cambridge University Press 2020. xii + 267 pp. $99.99 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-108-42123-2 __0__
In 1772, the creole polymath José Antonio Alzate traveled outside of Mexico City to investigate the effects of a typhus outbreak. As he later reported in an issue of his literary journal, his reconnaissance included an interview with a “ladino” resident, who suggested (…) -
Book Review: Can India’s public universities be remodelled? | P.S. Jayaramu
15 October 2022, by P S JayaramuReviewd 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 (…) -
Checkmating Communist China’s Rise and Rise | M.R. Narayan Swamy
9 September 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Beijing Rules: China’s Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
John Murray Press ISBN-13: 9781529367799 Pages: xxix + 305; Price: Rs 799
__0__ By now there is a growing amount of scholarship that the West, particularly the United States, has realized its folly of having allowed China to grow into an economic behemoth under the naive belief that the Communist state would embrace democratic values if it fell in love with capitalism. The reverse has happened, with (…) -
Reconciling Gandhi and Savarkar: The Paranjape Way | M.R. Narayan Swamy
22 November 2025, by M R Narayan SwamyBiographer Vikram Sampath may be convinced that the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi and Veer Savarkar remain the perfectly irreconcilable polar opposites that would never meet. But prolific writer and veteran academic Makarand R. Paranjape disagrees. The feud between the two men of history, he is equally confident, was actually a family quarrel as they were both fellow freedom fighters and professedly fellow Hindus.
And so, the unending antagonism between Gandhi and Savarkar needs a new (…) -
Durjan Singh—Biography of an Activist who fought for the Rights of the Poorest | Bharat Dogra
9 March 2024, by Bharat Dogra[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
This is a short but very inspiring and interesting biography of a communist activist who struggled for the rights of the poorest people in Bundelkhand region. Keeping in view the weakness of the communist parties in the Hindi belt in recent times, it may be of interest to many young people that the undivided Communist Party of India and after its division the CPI used to be very strong in the undivided Banda district (now including Banda and (…) -
Book Review of Lise Morjé Howard, Power in Peacekeeping | Chiara Ruffa
13 June 2020Reviewed by Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University)
Lise Morjé Howard. Power in Peacekeeping. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 274 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-45718-7
Lise Howard’s The Power of Peacekeeping is about how peacekeeping works and how peacekeepers achieve their ends. Building on Robert Dahl’s conceptualization of power, Howard argues that peacekeepers can be effective in three ways, via persuasion, inducement, and coercion.[1] Persuasion works mainly verbally, (…) -
Reporting at its Courageous Best | M.R. Narayan Swamy
21 October 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyReview by M.R. Narayan Swamy
__0__ Bullets and Bylines: From the Frontlines of Kabul, Delhi, Damascus and Beyond by Shyam Bhatia
Speaking Tiger Pages: 249; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 : 1720226733 ISBN-13 : 978-1720226734
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Shyam Bhatia got out of two tense situations because of Bollywood. The India-born Bhatia was walking in Baghdad towards the ousted Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace when he saw 40 to 50 Iraqis shouting hoarse at an American soldier on a US Army Humvee. (…)