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Chambers Book of Indian Election Facts
by Kingshuk Chatterjee and Surbek Biswas
Hachette India 2024 Pages: xii + 563; Price: Rs 699 PB ISBN : 9789357318389
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An estimated 2.8 million of the 80 million potential women voters could not make it to the electoral rolls when India conducted its first general election after independence. The reason? These women, mostly in northern India, wished to register themselves as ‘the (…)
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Essential and Fascinating Facts about Indian Elections | M.R. Narayan Swamy
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How Development Has Become Nature’s Enemy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
17 June 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Marginlands:
Indian Landscapes on the Brink
by Arati Kumar Rao
Picador India
Pages: 240
ISBN-10 : 9395624434
ISBN-13 : 978-9395624435 __0__
Man’s unending penchant for ’development’ is triggering a disaster of epic proportions all across India – and probably in much of the so-called developing world. This is why gigantic projects have deepened the very problems they were supposed to resolve, why urban landscapes have turned a veritable foe for (…) -
Why Doesn’t India Wage War Against Tax Havens? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
14 October 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW __0__
Black Money and Tax Havens (Updated Edition) R. Vaidyanathan
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780143459446 Pages: xvi + 254; Price: Rs. 399 __0__
This is an authoritative book on tax havens and why the superrich all around the world love them. When it comes to India, two unpleasant conclusions can be drawn. One, the Congress party, whatever it may now say about the Adanis, never showed any serious intent to bring back money stolen from India and stashed away abroad. Equally (…) -
Ghachar Ghochar Waited for Me to Grow Up
17 August 2025, by Disha[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Ghachar Ghochar
by Vivek Shanbhag
HarperCollins Publishers India
2015
124 pages
ISBN-10: ? 9789351776178
ISBN-13: ? 978-9351776178
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Sometimes a story does not unfold for the sake of entertainment or instruction but simply sits in a room, quietly existing, until you are ready to meet it on its own terms. Ghachar Ghochar is not a loud novel, nor is it in a rush to deliver a climax or resolution. It simply waits, almost (…) -
Political Autobiography of a Midnight’s Child | John Dayal
17 February 2024, by John Dayal[fond noir][blanc]Book Reviewblanc]fond noir]
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Keeping Up The Good Fight
From The Emergency To The Present Day
by Prabir Purkayastha
LeftWord Books, New Delhi 2023, 230 pages
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For any of his contemporaries born in a freshly minted independent India, Prabir Purkayastha’s book, “Keeping Up The Good Fight”, is a total recall, in lightning-fast picture flash cards, of the last sixty-years of our own life after leaving school. With the difference that Prabir bookends the (…) -
Alam on Siddharth Singh’s The Great Smog of India
23 April 2021Book Review
by Md Mashhood Alam *
The Great Smog of India by Siddharth Singh
2018, 262 | ISBN: 9780670091171
Penguin Random House India
Air pollution in India is one of the critical issues that concerns our daily lives. Every winter from October to the last week of December most part of northern India in general and Delhi, in particular, is engulfed under a black smog and haze, what Siddharth Singh calls ‘The Great Smog of India’, largely due to stubble burning in Delhi’s (…) -
Elephants face an elephantine problem | M.R. Narayan Swamy
22 April 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW by M.R. Narayan Swamy
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Trumpet Calls:
Epic Tales of Extraordinary Elephants
Nalini Ramachandran
Hachette India
Pages: 242; Price: Rs 350
ISBN-10 : 939102890X ISBN-13 : 978-9391028909 __0__
Elephants have been caught and tamed from as early in history as 6000 BCE. And the practice of training them to fight in wars began in India around 1000 BCE. So many were trained to fight with deadly effect that King (…) -
A Diplomat
10 January, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Savita and Bhim Rao Ambedkar: A Most Unusual Partnership | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
20 May 2023, by Deepti Priya MehrotraBOOK REVIEW:
by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
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Babasaheb: My Life with Dr Ambedkar, by Savita Ambedkar
translated from the Marathi by Nadeem Khan
Vintage, Penguin Random House India 2022, p. 337 HB. Rs 599 ISBN-10 : 0670096695 ISBN-13 : 978-0670096695
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Accepting and Treasuring One Another
Savita Ambedkar writes, of her relationship with BR Ambedkar, ‘despite our most unusual circumstances, we accepted each other and treasured each other like something precious.’ (…) -
Ghoshal’s review of Who Killed Moosewala? by Jupinderjit Singh
5 January 2024REVIEW
by Joydip Ghosal
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Who Killed Moosewala? by Jupinderjit Singh
Westland Non-fiction 2023 195 pages ISBN-10 : 9357764615 ISBN-13 : 978-9357764612
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Jupinderjit Singh’s book Who Killed Moosewala ? The Spiralling Story of Violence in Punjab laid bare the different aspects of violence that tormented Punjab for a long time. The author delved deeper into the social and political realties to peel off the layers in order to unearth the menace that shoved a bright (…)