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  • 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

  • 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

  • Review of Hoxha, Artan R.. Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania | Andrew Pfannkuche
    22 March 2025

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    Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania
    by Artan R. Hoxha
    Central European University Press
    2023. xi + 293 pp.
    (cloth), ISBN 9789633866160.
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    Reviewed by Andrew Pfannkuche (Universit

  • 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

  • Review of Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts . . . | Gond & Chandravanshi
    29 March 2025

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    Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
    Henry Holt and Company 2018, 160 pages, ?3,230
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    Reviewed by Arun Kumar Gond, Ranjan Kumar Chandravanshi
    This book highlights the importance of avoiding social media. Author Jaron Lanier, a tech expert, critiques big tech and their exploitative practices. He explains how social media harms freedom, real-life interactions, and productivity (…)

  • Conquering the last bastion: The growth of Hindutva in Kerala | Sanjana K.S.
    22 March 2025

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    Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala
    by Nissim Mannathukkaren
    Routledge
    1st edition (31 July 2024) 272 pages
    ISBN-10 : ? 1032003065
    ISBN-13 ?: ? 978-1032003061
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    A decade since the remarkable victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014 with Narendra Modi in the fore has opened a plethora of academic debates on the party

  • Review of Researching Social Media with Children | Arun Kumar Gond
    29 March 2025

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    Researching Social Media with Children: #DigitalEthnography #Storytelling by Antonio Silva Esquinas, Jorge Ramiro Perez Suarez, Raquel Rebeca Cordero Verdugo, Julio Diaz Galan
    Routledge 2024, 105 pages, Rs 1,622 ISBN: 9781032506173
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    Reviewed by Arun Kumar Gond
    Social media is more than just a platform for connection- it shapes how young people form identities, express emotions, and navigate reality. This book explores (…)

  • Cohesive Development: The old is dying, and the new cannot be born | Deborah Darlianmawii, Manik Kumar, Keyoor Pathak
    5 April 2025

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    Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding of Transformative Mode of Production
    by Sunil Ray
    Germinal Publications, Kolkata
    2024
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    The author is hopeful about the future of the world and