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• Review: Fighting the Left | Matthew A. Hall
  7 July 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Matthew A. Hall (University of California, San Diego)
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  Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding "Socialism" at All Costs
  by Philip B. Minehan
  Bloomsbury Academic 2022 - Illustrations. 288 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-17064-3 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-22979-2
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  When Francisco Franco and other officers rose against the Spanish Republic in July 1936, it was above all the working class that fought the attempted coup d’etat to a (…)

• 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

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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 (…)

• Ghosal’s Review of The Lone Wolf by Neha Dwivedi
  9 December 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Review by Joydip Ghosal
  __0__ The Lone Wolf The Untold Story of the Rescue of Sheikh Hasina by Neha Dwivedi
  Penguin Veer 2021 ISBN: 9780143452720 https://www.penguin.co.in/book/the-lone-wolf/
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  Neha Dwivedi was the daughter of a Kargil martyr. After her father’s untimely demise she found solace in writing. She is a child feeding specialist and child birth educator. She deeply believes in inspirational healing power of stories. Her book The Lone Wolf : The Untold (…)

• Review of Singh’s My Tributes to Socialist Leaders | Harish Sharma
  12 July 2025

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  My Tributes to Socialist Leaders by Prem Singh
  Foreword by Ravela Somayya, Dr. A. Raghu Kumar
  Southern Springs Publishers (under the auspices of Rammanohar Lohia Samata Nyas), Hyderabad ISBN:978-81-962788-1-6 pp. 125, Price Rs 250
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  It has rightly been asserted that the socialist tradition in India deserves a place in the narrative in the making of modern India. This assertion is made in the context of the contribution (…)

• The Birth, Growth and Demise of Public Sector | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  22 March 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Public Sector and Privatization in India
  by Sheela Dubey
  Speaking Tiger
  Pages: 271; Price: Rs 699
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  Jawaharlal Nehru was no doubt a great votary of the public sector but the ills plaguing what was seen as

• Lessons from Indira Gandhi
  19 July 2025

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  Democracy Enchained, Nation Disgraced: Dark Days of India

• Uncovering Brutalities of Russian Revolution | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  3 September 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
  by Antony Beevor
  Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  Pages: 576;
  Price: Rs 1,399
  __0__ There is no doubt that life under Tsar was a torture to most people in Russia. Conditions in factories were appalling and dangerous. Strikes were outlawed. If you got sacked, large numbers of impoverished peasants were ready to take your place. In any dispute with factory owners, the police always backed them. Workers slept in barracks and (…)

• Testimony Against Silence: Knife by Salman Rushdie and the Dark Mirror to India’s Present | Ismail Salahuddin
  30 August 2025, by Ismail Salahuddin

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  Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  by Salman Rushdie
  Random House
  2024
  ISBN 10: 0593730240
  ISBN 13: 9780593730249
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  There are books that explain, books that imagine, and books that dare. But every once in a while, a book comes along that refuses to be just a book, it becomes a cry, a wound, a reckoning. Salman Rushdie

• An Irish legend Indians will always adore and respect | M R Narayan Swamy
  25 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Hero of Kumaon: The Life of Jim Corbett by Duff Hart-Davis
  HarperCollins India Pages: xii + 259; Price: Rs 399
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  It was an Ashoka moment that transformed the legendary Edward James Corbett from a widely-admired hunter of man-eaters in the hills of Kumaon to an ardent conservationist, an avid photographer of wild animals and, finally, as a successful author that fetched him unprecedented international fame.
  Jim, as he was popularly known, had once taken (…)

• Review of Researching Social Media with Children | Arun Kumar Gond
  29 March 2025

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  Researching Social Media with Children: #DigitalEthnography #Storytelling by Antonio Silva Esquinas, Jorge Ramiro Perez Suarez, Raquel Rebeca Cordero Verdugo, Julio Diaz Galan
  Routledge 2024, 105 pages, Rs 1,622 ISBN: 9781032506173
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  Reviewed by Arun Kumar Gond
  Social media is more than just a platform for connection- it shapes how young people form identities, express emotions, and navigate reality. This book explores their (…)