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• Review of Kaplan and Illouz’s ’What is Sexual Capital?’’
  12 April 2024

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  What is Sexual Capital?
  by Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz
  Polity Press, Cambridge 2022. 140 pp., pb ISBN 9781509552320
  Reviewed by Emily Laurent-Monaghan
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  Beginning with a note of irony, What is Sexual Capital? poses a seemingly straightforward question: ’what is sexual capital?’ The authors Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz begin by taking stock of recent sociological efforts to pursue the task of doing sociology more joyfully, to (…)

• Iran Stands at a Dangerous Crossroad | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  1 March 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• How the English Built India – Brick by Brick I M R Narayan Swamy
  30 September 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Empire Building: The Construction of British India 1690-1860
  by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
  Penguin/Viking ISBN: 9780670099689 Pages: xi + 239; Price: Rs 799
  __0__ Yes, the English landed in India purportedly to trade before they began pitting one kingdom against the other amid a crumbling Mughal order to gain lordship over one of the biggest countries in the world. Before the British Raj started ruling India directly after the 1857 War of Independence, it was the East India (…)

• A Diplomat
  10 January, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• Review of Electrifying Mexico by Diana J. Montaño | Jaclyn A. Sumner
  12 August 2023

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  Reviewed by Jaclyn A. Sumner (Presbyterian College)
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  Electrifying Mexico:
  Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
  by Diana J. Montaño
  University of Texas Press 2021. Illustrations. xiv + 373 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2345-8
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  In Electrifying Mexico, Diana J. Montaño examines how government officials, engineers, citizens, and others worked to illuminate and power up Mexico City, the nation’s capital and emblem of progress. Montaño’s book is (…)

• A Hard Look at Indian Muslims and Secularism | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  27 January 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Polarised Times: Living in India Today Anil Maheshwari
  Vitasta; Pages: xx + 398; Price: Rs 599
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  Veteran journalist Anil Maheshwari is as secular as any Indian can be. He is emphatic that labelling the entire Muslim community as anti-national is both grossly unfair and goes against democratic values. Also, Indian Muslims are not answerable for the wrongs committed in (or by) Pakistan. And they are equally not responsible to today’s Hindus for the wrongs the (…)

• Book Review: Raza on Kenny’s Populism and Patronage
  2 December 2022

  Reviewed by Aamir Raza
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  Populism and Patronage: Why Populist win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond
  by Paul D. Kenny
  Oxford University Press 2017 Pages 234 Price Rs 545
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  Populism has been a recurrent feature of Global politics since last century. Despite having hostile views about liberal democratic institutions, Populist party across the world have gained astonishing electoral success. Although Populism can persist across the ideological spectrum, Populist threats (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 historical (…)

• Why Haruki Murakami
  13 September 2025, by Disha

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  Strange Library
  by Haruki Murakami
  Harvill Secker
  January 1, 2014, ? 88 pages
  ISBN-10: 1846559219
  ISBN-13: 978-1846559211
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