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• 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. (…)

• Review of Bala Ramulu Chinnala’s Development Strategies and Governance in India | Srinivasulu Karli
  22 November 2025, by Karli Srinivasulu

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  Development Strategies and Governance in India:
  Predicaments and Challenges
  by Bala Ramulu Chinnala
  Routledge
  2025
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  Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
  Post-independent India

• Tanya Goyal. Review of Ohman, Carl, The Afterlife of Data
  6 December 2025

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  The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
  by Carl Ohman
  University of Chicago Press
  2024. 200 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-82822-0
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  Reviewed by Tanya Goyal (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
  The internet never dies

• Bilston on Taylor, ’Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today’
  10 January

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  Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today
  by Judith M. Taylor
  University of New Mexico Press
  2025. Illustrations. 218 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-0-8263-6783-9.
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  Reviewed by Sarah Bilston (Trinity College)
  Judith M. Taylor

• A Diplomat
  10 January, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• Pakistan
  24 January, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Perfect Storm: The History and Anatomy of 26/11
  by Prabhakar Aloka and Nikhil Ravi
  Ebury Press/Penguin Random House
  Pages: xxxi + 220; Price: Rs 499
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  If former Intelligence Bureau officer Prabhakar Aloka is to be believed, Pakistan

• Henk-Jan Dekker. Review of Romero Sommer, Gonzalo, High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
  15 February

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  High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
  by Gonzalo Romero Sommer
  University of Nebraska Press
  2025. 298 pp
  (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-3512-1.
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  Reviewed by Henk-Jan Dekker (Bielefeld University)
  It is quite common for historical accounts of electrification to focus either on urban or rural electrification. The relationship between the two and the ways urban-rural relationships are defined and reconfigured in the process of (…)

• A Reality Check on Operation Sindoor |
  19 March, by M R Narayan Swamy

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• Vincenzo Colaprice. Review of Koivunen, Pia, Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
  8 March

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  Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
  by Pia Koivunen
  De Gruyter Oldenbourg
  2023. Illustrations. 303 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-075844-3;
  Free (open access), ISBN 978-3-11-076116-0
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  Reviewed by Vincenzo Colaprice (University of Turin)
  Youth Festivals and Soviet Diplomacy
  On December 24, 2025, the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) issued a call to (…)

• Review of Pataguni’s Foreign Policy Decision Making In India | P.S. Jayaramu
  19 March, by P S Jayaramu

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  Foreign Policy Decision Making In India : A Political Psychological Perspective
  by S. S. Patagundi
  Rawat Publications
  2025, Pp 201, Price: Rs 1095
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  This above book by Dr. Patagundi, former Professor of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, is the product of his research as a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Sicial Science Research(ICSSR), New Delhi, a few years ago. The book is actually brought out by (…)