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  • Book Review: Quraishi’s The Population Myth | Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza
    1 April 2022

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    The Population Myth: Islam, family Planning and Politics in India by S.Y. Quraishi
    HarperCollins India 2021, 256 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390351545 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390351541 __0__
    In recent years particularly after the landslide victory of the BJP in 2014 its followers, leaders and biased Media have vigorously perpetuated the propaganda that Muslims are deliberately increasing their population to outnumber the Hindus in India. A common (…)

  • Excellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period
    18 August 2013

    BOOK REVIEW
    by Yogesh Puri
    Gopinath Bardoloi, “The Assam Problem” and Nehru’s Centre by Nirode K. Barooah; Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati; 2010; pp. 675.
    “...The subject I have touched in this book and the material used for the purpose are still largely untouched and unknown….No one else has cared to study Bardoloi in such depth as the present author.” (p. ix) Indeed, this is not a tall or boastful claim by the author. The claim is convincingly vindicated by his (…)

  • Review of Minami’s, People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold Wa
    17 August 2025

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    People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War
    by Kazushi Minami
    Cornell University Press
    2024. 270 pp.
    (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-7415-7
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    Reviewed by Yanqiu Zheng (St. Lawrence University)
    Kazushi Minami

  • 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

  • A tale of love, truth and victimhood | Prasenjit Chowdhury
    23 July 2021

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    One Love, and the Many Lives of Osip B
    by C. P. Surendran
    Niyogi Books, New Delhi
    www.niyogibooksindia.com/
    Email: niyogibooks[at]gmail.com
    IMPRINT: OLIVE TURTLE June - July 2021, 372 pages
    ISBN-13: 978-93-91125-12-7
    Rs. 695
    # Fiction
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    ‘This is my moment of truth. Kashmir’s too. Shaheed Osip Bala Krishnan. I shall redeem honour by throwing myself in the way of bullets fired by the Indian army. Someone will take a (…)

  • Review of Svetlana Alexievich’s Zinky Boys | John Lloyd
    23 March 2024

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    ZINKY BOYS: The Record of a Lost Soviet Generation
    by Svetlana Alexievich
    translated by Julia Whitby and Robin Whitby.
    Chatto, 192 pp., January 1992 0 7011 3838 6
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    Among the many thoughts which this sad, sometimes unreadably sad book suggests is this: did the Afghan war mark the beginning of the most dramatic military event of our time, the dissolution of the Soviet Armed Forces? Did the crumbling of belief and will (…)

  • Review of Sainath’s The Last Heroes | KS Subramanian
    21 January 2023, by K S Subramanian

    Reviewed by KS Subramanian
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    The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by P Sainath
    (Penguin India) 2022
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    The book is dedicated to the author’s mother whose stories of freedom fighters including those of her father who spent years in British jails inspired him. The author’s grandfather was VV Giri who became President of India after its independence.
    While at university, the author had learnt that almost all the major uprisings against the British had begun in the (…)

  • The Missing Bridge between Two Volatile Classes | Papri Sri Raman
    2 December 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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    __0__ Liberalised India, Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals
    by Anshu Srivastava
    Pages: 148 Price Rs 995 (hardback)
    Routledge, an imprint of Francis & Taylor ISBN: 978-1-032-05489-6 (pbk)
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    The title is interesting, any study of a ‘politicised’ middle class is always fascinating, though political labeling is changing rapidly. Who is Middle Class, who Upper Class or Lower can no longer be defined categorically, it is no longer a classically (…)

  • 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

  • A Hard Look at Indian Muslims and Secularism | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    27 January 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Polarised Times: Living in India Today Anil Maheshwari
    Vitasta; Pages: xx + 398; Price: Rs 599
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    Veteran journalist Anil Maheshwari is as secular as any Indian can be. He is emphatic that labelling the entire Muslim community as anti-national is both grossly unfair and goes against democratic values. Also, Indian Muslims are not answerable for the wrongs committed in (or by) Pakistan. And they are equally not responsible to today’s Hindus for the wrongs the (…)