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• Book Review: British Savagery in Delhi After 1857 | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  19 August 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Book Review __0__ Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857
  Khwaja Hasan Nizami Translated by Rana Safvi
  Hachette India Paperback ‏ : ‎ 244 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9393701148 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9393701145
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  When the British finally reconquered Delhi with the help of loyal Indian troops after the 1857 revolt, the retribution was swift and brutal, without any regard for justice and fair play. Not only were (…)

• 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

• Dissecting What Destroyed Prabhakaran, LTTE | Sivadas Sankar
  26 January 2025

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  The Rout of Prabhakaran
  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  Konark
  Pages: xvii + 142; Price Rs 895
  (Also includes Inside an Elusive Mind: Prabhakaran: The First Profile of the World

• Book Review: Understanding the Nuances of Development
  19 May 2007, by G Narasimha Raghavan

  Development Discourse: Issues and Concerns by T.K. Oommen; Regency Publications, New Delhi; 2004 .
  Back in 1965, Dudley Seers wondered aloud:
  What has been happening to poverty? What has been happening to unemployment? What has been happening to inequality? If all three of these have become less severe, then beyond doubt this has been a period of development for the country concerned. If one or two of these central problems have been growing worse, especially if all three have, it would (…)

• Mapping India’s Sufi World — With a New Twist | M R Narayan Swamy
  16 December 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  In Search of the Divine:
  Living Histories of Sufism in India
  by Rana Safvi
  Hachette India
  Pages: 415; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9393701113
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  Orthodox Muslims may look down upon Sufism as blasphemy but writer-scholar Rana Safvi asserts that Prophet Muhammud was the first Sufi and the first link of all Sufi orders or silsilas.
  In a claim that could raise the hackles of many Muslims, Safvi says that it is from the Prophet’s own behaviour that Sufis (…)

• Wan on Williamson and Guffey, ’Making Disability Modern: Design Histories’
  1 March 2024

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  Reviewed by Shu Wan (University at Buffalo)
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  Making Disability Modern: Design Histories Bess Williamson, Elizabeth Guffey, eds.
  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-1-350-07042-4
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  Wan on Williamson et. al, Making Disability Modern
  As a promising academic field, disability studies is currently undergoing a material turn. The proliferation of scholarly writings about the past and present of (…)

• Memoirs of an Exalite | Sreejith K
  19 October 2024

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  Oranweshanathinte katha
  by K. Venu
  DC Books 2023, 752 pages ISBN: 9789354829383
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  Reviewed by Sreejith K
  In an iconic scene from Sandesham, which has over the years acquired a cult status amongst the Malayalis for its trenchant political satire, a communist party worker, Sreenivasan, during a pennukaanal (would-be bride seeing), after some perfunctory questions on Marxism to the bewilderment of the girl, asks her whether she would be willing to spend the (…)

• A Maverick Whose Instinct Worked | N. Sathiya Moorthy
  26 January 2025, by N. Sathiya Moorthy

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  A Maverick in Politics
  by Mani Shankar Aiyar
  Juggernaut
  Pages: 410 Price: Rs 711
  ISBN: 9789353457679
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  At a time when commentaries on current affairs have become a rarity, three-term Congress MP, Mani Shankar Aiyar

• Review of Puia’s Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India | P Kham Sian Muan Zou
  9 November 2024

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  Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India
  by Roluah Puia
  Cambridge University Press
  2023
  ISBN: 9781009346078
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  Reviewed by P Kham Sian Muan Zou
  Roluahpuia

• Bhagat’s Review of Toxic Immanence by Livia Monnet
  15 July 2023

  Reviewed by Raina Bhagat (Northwestern University)
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  Toxic Immanence:
  Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures
  by Livia Monnet
  Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. 472 pp. ISBN 978-0-228-01136-1
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  Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures is an edited collection with an ambitious scope, making impressive strides across both disciplines and genres to sketch out numerous paths toward the unequivocal need for the abolition of nuclear (…)