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• Review of Abbas’s Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb |
  13 April 2025

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  Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance
  by Hassan Abbas
  Oxford University Press
  2018. 356 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-090157-8
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  Reviewed by Raymond Whisenhunt (Air University, Air War College)
  Pakistan

• A Dalit Activist
  8 February 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Indian communist parties have often failed in weaving Indian identities into the language of left politics; Dalit or lower caste identities, gender-based identities, tribal identities are prominent among those. India

• Review of Fujiwara & Marples (eds.), Hiroshima-75
  22 February 2025

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  Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts
  by Aya Fujiwara, David R. Marples, eds.
  ibidem Verlag, 2020. 307 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-3-8382-1398-9
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  Reviewed by Jonathan Runnels (Air University, Air War College)
  In 2020, Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples published Hiroshima-75, an edited collection commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of dropping the nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The (…)

• Delhi Model: When good governance and trickle-up economics merged | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  15 February 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• Review of Sohal’s The Muslim Secular | Raheel Bashir & Aamir Jamal Khan
  15 February 2025

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  The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India

• AMU: Institution of Learning or Intellectual Ghetto? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  22 February 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  AMU: Institution of Learning or Identity
  by Anil Maheshwari and Arjun Maheshwari
  Ink/Occam
  Pages: xvii + 431; Price: Rs 899
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  Anil Maheshwari, the lead author I know, is as secular an Indian as one can be. The book recognises, and rightly so, how the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come under repeated and unfair attacks from the Hindu Right because of its Islamic character. The authors are against the Modi government

• Review of Scheinbaum’s The Darker Side of Social Media | Arun Kumar & Jyoti Yadav
  1 March 2025

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  The Darker Side of Social Media: Consumer Psychology and

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

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  Iran

• Review of Ali, Saleem H., Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability | Andrew Perchard
  8 March 2025

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  Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability
  by Saleem H. Ali
  Columbia University Press
  2023. 320 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-20448-4
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  Reviewed by Andrew Perchard (University of Otago)
  Saleem Ali takes aluminum as the subject of his book, Soil to Foil. Ali

• Why Alternative Development Paradigm Matters? | Jos Chathukulam
  15 March 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

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  Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production
  by Sunil Ray
  Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd (Sharmistha Dutta on behalf of Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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  Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production by Sunil Ray introduces to us a novel development framework