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• It’s All About Modi, Only Modi | Papri Sri Raman
  6 April 2024, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  India’s Soul Possessed
  by L K Sharma
  Kindle Edition
  Notion Press
  July 18, 2023 | 471 pages | ASIN : B0CF53VX53
  via Amazon
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  The writer of the book, India’s Soul Possessed: New India

• How A Secret Meet Between Badal and Rajiv Fizzled Out | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  18 March 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Living a Life Hardcover by Ravi Sawhney Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd | 10 February 2023 Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 264 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8195678637 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8195678631 __0__
  1980 brought the Congress to power in Punjab and turned the defeated Akalis belligerent. The state began to feel the heat as the Akali Dal launched a massive agitation for the implementation of the Anandpur Sahib Resolution of 1973. Although the Akalis did not create Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, they did not speak (…)

• Newton’s Review of Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz, eds., Saturation: An Elemental Politics
  13 May 2023

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  Reviewed by Samm Newton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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  Saturation: An Elemental Politics
  Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz, eds.
  Duke University Press
  2021. xii + 332 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-1304-4 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1146-0
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  Saturation: An Elemental Politics, edited by Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz, is a rich and varied collection of essays that offers a multidisciplinary foray into how the concept of saturati can be employed as an interpretive lens (…)

• Spiritualty in Indian Freedom Struggle | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  5 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Indian Ideas of Freedom: B.R. Ambedkar, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, M.N. Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda
  by Dennis Dalton
  HarperCollins India Pages: xv + 519; Price: Rs 699
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  Indian ideas of freedom dew deeply on indigenous traditions of thought, especially religious. But the men and women who led the long and arduous campaign for independence were no religious bigots. They incorporated Indic traditions in their focus on inner (…)

• 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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• A RAW officer’s ordeal in Pakistan & Beyond | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  27 February 2021

  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  Terror in Islamabad by Amar Bhushan HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 171; Price: Rs 250
  This is a work of fiction only in name. This is an outstanding even if bone-chilling tribute to an Indian intelligence officer who for three long years fooled Pakistan’s ISI as he ran a network spread all over that country. Unable to digest their failure, ISI bullies abducted and brutally tortured him just before he was to return to India for good. Miraculously, the man (…)

• Hiner on Keiser’s ’Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience’
  4 November 2022

  Reviewed by Amanda Hiner (Winthrop University)
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  Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser
  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
  2020. 324 pp
  (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4479-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4477-7
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  Cognitive literary studies is a dynamic and growing field of academic research that explores intersections between cognitive science and literary texts and their production. (…)

• Review of Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | KS Subramanian
  12 July 2024, by K S Subramanian

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  Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
  by Nandita Haksar
  Speaking Tiger 2023, Rs 399
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  Manipur was an independent kingdom with a constitution of its own when it was forcibly taken over by India in 1949 in the name of national integration. The resulting resistance and insurgencies are characteristic features of the state. State repression (…)

• The Birth, Growth and Demise of Public Sector | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  22 March 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Public Sector and Privatization in India
  by Sheela Dubey
  Speaking Tiger
  Pages: 271; Price: Rs 699
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  Jawaharlal Nehru was no doubt a great votary of the public sector but the ills plaguing what was seen as

• Durjan Singh—Biography of an Activist who fought for the Rights of the Poorest | Bharat Dogra
  9 March 2024, by Bharat Dogra

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  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 (…)