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Reviewed by Jo Freeman
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The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth Flock
Harper 2024. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780063048805 ISBN 10: 0063048809
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Women Who Fight Back
The author’s quest to find women who fought back began when she was raped by a tour guide in Rome after he slipped her a sedative. She did not report the incident because she did not think anyone would believe her. But it consumed her thoughts for decades, (…)
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Freeman’s Review of Elizabeth Flock. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
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Field Notes - Distress and Violence in Rural Bengal | M.R. Narayan Swamy
27 May 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBook Review by M.R. Narayan Swamy __0__
Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok
by Parimal Bhattacharya
HarperCollins India;
ISBN-10 : 9354894372 ISBN-13 : 978-9354894374
299 pages; Price: Rs 499
This is an extraordinary book, written with a passion about those who are not normally ignored and who, as the title reveals, live in far-flung areas where Bengal’s mostly upper-caste Hindu Bhadralok are normally absent. The book is a mirror to the (…) -
A tale of love, truth and victimhood | Prasenjit Chowdhury
23 July 2021BOOK REVIEW by Prasenjit Chowdhury __0__
One Love, and the Many Lives of Osip B
by C. P. Surendran
Niyogi Books, New Delhi
www.niyogibooksindia.com/
Email: niyogibooks[at]gmail.com
IMPRINT: OLIVE TURTLE June - July 2021, 372 pages
ISBN-13: 978-93-91125-12-7
Rs. 695
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‘This is my moment of truth. Kashmir’s too. Shaheed Osip Bala Krishnan. I shall redeem honour by throwing myself in the way of bullets fired by the Indian army. Someone will take a (…) -
Review of Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng, The Matter of Facts | Jessica R. Avery
19 August 2022BOOK REVIEW
__0__ The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science
by Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng
Cambridge: MIT Press 2020. Illustrations. 376 pp (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-04388-5; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-35828-6.
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Reviewed by Jessica R. Avery (DePaul University)
As the title suggests, Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng’s collaborative book, The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science, presents an insightful, critical, and (…) -
Review of Aruna Roy’s "The Personal Is Political"
19 July 2024, by Sagari Chhabra[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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The Personal Is Political: An Activist’s Memoir
by Aruna Roy
Harpercollins India
2024
Pages: 272
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Mughal Kings who Promoted Sanskrit, Hindu Epics | M.R. Narayan Swamy
12 August 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
by Audrey Truschke
Penguin Books Mar/2016 Pages: xiv + 362; Price: Rs 450 ISBN: 9780143428909
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It is not without reason that Emperor Akbar (who ruled from 1556 to 1605) was always described as Akbar the Great – till Hindutva ideologues decided that popular admiration for him should go and he must be seen as another Muslim king who Hindu-majority India would have probably preferred to do without. (…) -
Chatterjee on Creativity from the Periphery by Deepanwita Dasgupta
22 July 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Animesh Chatterjee (Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger)
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Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India
by Deepanwita Dasgupta
University of Pittsburgh Press 2021. 312 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8229-8802-1 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4656-4.
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Outlining her arguments, Deepanwita Dasgupta writes that the purpose of Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of (…) -
The formative years of a communist organiser | Joydip Ghosal
9 March 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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An Education for Rita A Memoir 1975-1985
by Brinda Karat
Leftword, January 2024
(Paperback) ISBN 978-93-92018-21-3
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Brinda Karat, a former member of Rajya Sabha is one of the founders of All India Democratic Women’s Association. A member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India( Marxist) she penned down a memoir titled An Education for Rita, A Memoir 1975-1985. She dedicated the memoir to her comrades in the (…) -
A Window to Cricket and India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
26 August 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
__0__ Not Just Cricket: A Reporter’s Journey through Modern India by Pradeep Magazine
HarperCollins India Pages: 371; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 : 9354892116 ISBN-13 : 978-9354892110
__0__ The best part about Pradeep Magazine is that he just doesn’t love cricket but his heart beats for India. As he exposes the rot in the Indian cricket establishment while hailing some of the finest players the game has produced in this cricket-crazy country, Magazine also takes you to (…) -
A Marvel that Indian Cities Once Were | M.R. Narayan Swamy
5 January 2024, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW __0__
Indian Cities: Ancient and Medieval by Raghavan Srinivasan
Hachette India Pages: xi + 180; Price: Rs 399 ISBN-10 : 9357312501 ISBN-13 : 978-9357312509 __0__
It is a matter of immense pity that Indians do not build and maintain their cities the way their ancestors did during the Harappan Civilization.
The baths in houses, public wells, bathing areas and high-quality drainage were among the most startling discoveries that archaeologists made when they began (…)