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  • Beyond the Fences: A Rationale for Cohesive Development | Sanjoy De, Atanu Sengupta
    20 April 2025

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    Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding of Transformative Mode of Production
    by Sunil Ray
    Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd. (Publisher of frontier weekly)
    2024. 250 INR.
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    Development is the buzzword of today. Everybody speaks of it as if it is the only religion and pursuit of the modern day. In his populist book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (2015) argued that the ability of man (…)

  • A Gripping Saga of India
    17 May 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    The Scam That Shook a Nation: The Nagarwala Scandal
    by Prakash Patra, Rasheed Kidwai
    HarperCollins India
    Pages: xi + 263; Price: Rs 399
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    It is a story that has been told, literally, a million times. But when Prakash Patra and Rahseed Kidwai, two extremely capable journalists, recap the story with their penchant for thorough research, it becomes a book you just cannot put down.
    The sensational incident which the book (…)

  • Will there ever be peace in Gaza? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    24 May 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Gaza: A History
    by Jean-Pierre Filiu
    (Translated by John King)
    Pan MacMillan India
    Pages: xix + 563; Price: Not mentioned
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    It is difficult to imagine a more impoverished strip of land which lies at the heart of one of the most enduring and seemingly most intractable of historical disputes. Also called a dense open-air prison, Gaza is where peace will have to come first if the dragging Israeli-Palestinian row needs (…)

  • Dissecting a Dictator amid Western Hypocrisy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    7 June 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution
    by Lindsey Hilsum
    Faber and Faber
    Pages: xxi + 228; Price: Rs 599
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    That Muammar Gaddafi suffered a horrible death at the hands of some of those he had tormented for decades is no news. That he, his family as well as cronies bled Libya during the 42 years that he presided over the country is also known. What makes award-winning journalist Lindsey Hilsum

  • How America
    14 June 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    The Long Southern Strategy:
    How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
    by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
    Oxford University Press:
    Pages: xxiii + 534
    ISBN-10 ? : ? 0190265965
    ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0190265960
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    For a long time, Democrats had painted the entire southern United States blue, winning the hearts of the white majority in the sprawling region. There was a reason for this. The Democratic (…)

  • Review of Pannekoek’s ’The Workers
    19 July 2025

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    The Workers

  • Review of Takahashi’s Fukushima Futures | James W. Seabrooke III
    5 July 2025

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    Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape by Satsuki Takahashi
    University of Washington Press 2023. 194 pp ISBN 978-0-295-75134-4
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    Reviewed by James W. Seabrooke III
    Environmental Futurism and an Ethnography of Fishermen in the Joban Seascape
    Views of a sustainable future can become quickly obfuscated and disjointed for coastal communities when they are affected by life- and (…)

  • Review of Spy Master & Chief Minister | K S Subramanian
    5 July 2025, by K S Subramanian

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    The Chief Minister and the Spy:
    An Unlikely Friendship
    by Dulat A.S
    Juggernaut Books
    2024, pp.289 | ISBN:9789353454746
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    Reviewed by K S Subramanian
    Introduction
    Dulat

  • Review of Panter-Brick’s Gandhi and the Middle East | Vedh P. Siv
    12 July 2025

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    Gandhi and the Middle East
    Jews, Arabs and Imperial Interests
    by Simone Panter-Brick
    I.B. Tauris
    First Edition, Jan 2015
    ISBN 9781784530228
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    02 May 2025
    Introduction
    When India attained its independence in 1947, the nation was principled on two ideas --- peace and non-violence, for both, the nation and its people. These ideas were inspired from Mahatma Gandhi, one among the greatest freedom fighters and the (…)

  • Review of Singh’s My Tributes to Socialist Leaders | Harish Sharma
    12 July 2025

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    My Tributes to Socialist Leaders by Prem Singh
    Foreword by Ravela Somayya, Dr. A. Raghu Kumar
    Southern Springs Publishers (under the auspices of Rammanohar Lohia Samata Nyas), Hyderabad ISBN:978-81-962788-1-6 pp. 125, Price Rs 250
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    It has rightly been asserted that the socialist tradition in India deserves a place in the narrative in the making of modern India. This assertion is made in the context of the contribution (…)