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• A Story of Police Injustice – And Reprieve | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  9 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW by M.R. Narayan Swamy
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  The Stolen Necklace: A Small Crime in a Small Town by Shevlin Sebastian and V.K. Thajudheen
  HarperCollins India Pages: xi + 249 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9356296855 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9356296855 Price: Rs 399
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  It happened in a small town in Kerala but it could have happened anywhere in India – and to anyone, more so if one couldn’t pull the right strings. V.T. Thajudheen was adamant he had committed no crime. Yet the (…)

• Arcimovich on Ayers and Alves and Leal and Hjartarson, ’Globalizing the Avant-Garde’
  23 August 2025

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  Globalizing the Avant-Garde
  David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha, Benedikt Hjartarson, eds.
  Walter de Gruyter
  2025. 499 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 9783111317533
  ISBN-10 : ?3111317536
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  Reviewed by Tania Arcimovich (Erfurt University)
  Globalizing the Avant-Garde, edited by David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha Leal, and Benedikt Hjartarson, continues the European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies series, (…)

• A Doctor with a Heart | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  29 October 2022

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  When The Heart Speaks: Memoirs of a Cardiologist by Dr Upendra Kaul Konark Publishers Pages: 202 Price: Rs 750 __0__
  There are plenty of good doctors in this country, fortunately. Yet, it is not easy to know a doctor who is a successful professional, nationally recognized and yet a warm-hearted human being whose heart bleeds for the peaceful society that Kashmir, his home state, once was.
  Dr Upendra Kaul devotes much of the book to his more than (…)

• Ghoshal’s review of Who Killed Moosewala? by Jupinderjit Singh
  5 January 2024

  REVIEW
  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 (…)

• Review of Smith, Jessica M., Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
  25 March 2023

  Reviewed by Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (University of Colorado Boulder)
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  Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
  by Jessica M. Smith
  Engineering Studies Series
  Cambridge: MIT Press
  2021. Illustrations. 328 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54216-6; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-36242-9 free (open access), ISBN 978-0-262-36615-1.
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  Published on H-Environment (February, 2023)
  Extracting Accountability is an account of how engineers in the mining (…)

• Review: Brian Elliott on Stethoscope by Anna Harris, Tom Rice
  29 April 2023

  Reviewed by Brian Elliott (Wright Patterson Medical Center and Wright State University) __0__
  Stethoscope:
  The Making of a Medical Icon.
  by Anna Harris, Tom Rice
  Reaktion Books 2022. 191 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78914-633-2
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  The stethoscope is perhaps the most recognizable icon in medicine. Its early nineteenth-century invention by René Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec is well described by historians and articulated in Laënnec’s De l’auscultation médiate ou traité du diagnostic (…)

• Review of Shastri’s Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey | P. S. Jayaramu
  14 July, by P S Jayaramu

  Book Review: Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey, by Sandeep Shastri Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd. New Delhi, 2026, Pp.158, Price: Rs. 495. ISBN : 978-93-49389-26-7 Prof. Sandeep Shastri , who is a well known academician writing for decades on electoral poitics, federal relations and about the functioning of India’s democratic institutions has penned a book about his academic assignments across the continents from 1993 to 2022. He refers to them as his academic odyssey. (…)

• A Study of Women Farmers Under Kudumbashree Collective Farming in Kerala | Sudeshna Sengupta
  17 June 2023

  BOOK REVIEW:
  by Sudeshna Sengupta
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  From the Realm of Necessity to the Realm of Freedom by Jaya Mehta and Vineet Tiwari
  Aakar Books January 1, 2022
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9350027674 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9350027677
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  The foreword rightly warns the reader that a wordy introduction will fall short of describing the rich content of the book. The book is indeed a rare one. It comes at a time when the country is grappling with intense agrarian crisis on the one hand and countrywide (…)

• Rise of Hindutva Politics and Crisis of Congress Party: Search for an Alternative Politics | Badre Alam khan and Sanjay Kumar
  5 August 2023, by Badre Alam Khan

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics Growing Polarization and the Decline of the Congress Party (2009-19)
  by Zoya Hasan
  Oxford University Press
  23 August 2022 | 216 Pages
  ISBN: 9780192863416
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  The Grand Old Congress Party has for some time now been going through an existential crisis at the ideological and organizational level in current Indian politics. However, the Karnataka Election verdict (2023) has given a new lease of life to the Party. In (…)

• Mapping India
  15 November 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  The Golden Road:
  How Ancient India Transformed the World
  by William Dalrymple
  Bloomsbury
  483; Price: Not given
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  When someone speaks about ancient India