Book Review

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• Why Haruki Murakami
  13 September 2025, by Disha

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  Strange Library
  by Haruki Murakami
  Harvill Secker
  January 1, 2014, ? 88 pages
  ISBN-10: 1846559219
  ISBN-13: 978-1846559211
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  Haruki Murakami

• Review of Vakil, Ganjavii, Khanlarzadeh’s Revolutionary Engineers | Ernest Lee
  20 September 2025

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  Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology
  by Sepehr Vakil, Mahdi Ganjavi, Mina Khanlarzadeh
  MIT Press
  2025. 217 pp. (paper) ISBN 9780262552196 | ISBN electronic: 9780262382830
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  Reviewed by Ernest Lee (University of Chicago)
  Aryameh University of Technology (AMUT)

• Review of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Selected Stories | Malathi Suramanian
  11 October 2025

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  Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
  by Banu Mushtaq
  (Booker Prize Winner 2025)
  Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
  Penguin Random House India
  2024
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  Reviewed by Dr. Malathi Suramanian

• A Report Card on India
  11 October 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

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  A recently published book, To Kill A Democracy: India

• "Post-Post modernist" theory of "Cohesive development through Alternative development paradigm | Bharat Patankar
  18 October 2025

  It was a very great experience to read Prof. Sunil Ray’s upcoming book. In fact, at many instances while I was reading, I thought as if I am reading my own writing on the "Alternative development paradigm "!! This was particularly true when I was reading the beginning of the Part III which says,
  "The primary condition for cohesive development is social cohesion among individuals with a sense of community and commitment to the common objective based on collective understanding and shared (…)

• Review of Bonnell, Andrew G., Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity | Jens-Uwe Guettel
  25 October 2025

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  Socialism, and Modernity
  by Andrew G. Bonnell. Robert Michels
  Oxford University Press
  2022
  viii + 282 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-287184-8
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  Sociology and Socialism
  Andrew G. Bonnell

• Oh! Orundhuti, Kamon Acho | Papri Sen Sri Raman
  25 October 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  Mother Mary Comes To Me
  by Arundhati Roy
  Publisher: Penguin Random-House, India
  374 pages
  Price: Rs 899
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  Very authoritative reviews of Mother Mary Comes to Me have been published in the first two months of the book

• The ground-breaking theorisation on the people as co-authors of the constitution and their central role as constitutional actors | Vijay Kumar
  8 November 2025, by Vijay Kumar

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  Assembling India

• 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

• Review of Christopher Dole, Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey | Andrew J. Bielecki
  15 November 2025

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  Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey
  by Christopher Dole
  Stanford University Press
  2025. 312 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-4177-8
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-4251-5
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  Reviewed by Andrew J. Bielecki (Columbia University)
  What does it mean to live through the end of your world? Across the world, humanity has endured one natural disaster after another, some with truly apocalyptic manifestations. (…)