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• Borders Are Not Real | G Narasimha Raghavan
  16 December 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

  Book Review
  Border Nation
  A Story of Migration
  by Leah Cowan
  Pluto Press, London
  2021 ISBN 978 0 7453 4107 1 (Paperback) __0__
  The UK’s border regulations and migration conundrums take a heavy verbal beating from Leah Cowan. The book Border Nation, a very challenging read, rich with examples, useful references and contemporary allusions, is Cowan’s first book. In this book, Cowan, a British citizen and former Politics Editor at gal-dem (an online magazine and media platform run (…)

• 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 (…)

• Vergara on Hutchison, ’Workers Like All the Rest of Them
  11 June 2022

  Reviewed by Ángela Vergara (California State University)
  __0__ Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
  Durham: Duke University Press 2022 228 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1489-8; (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1395-2.
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  The history of Chile’s paid domestic workers has remained largely invisible. Labor studies do not mention their struggles and unionization efforts or consider the (…)

• It’s All About Modi, Only Modi | Papri Sri Raman
  6 April 2024, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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  India’s Soul Possessed
  by L K Sharma
  Kindle Edition
  Notion Press
  July 18, 2023 | 471 pages | ASIN : B0CF53VX53
  via Amazon
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  The writer of the book, India’s Soul Possessed: New India

• Israel is reaping what it has sowed | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  1 March 2024

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  The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine by Michael Scott-Baumann
  Picador India; Pages: 279; Price: Not given
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  After the killing of an Israeli woman and her two children in a Palestinian grenade attack, Israeli forces entered the West Bank village of Qibya in October 1953 and killed 69 of its inhabitants, most of them women and children. This was part of a policy Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion put in place to force (…)

• Review: Raghavan on Vijayan’s Midnight’s Borders
  21 October 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India
  by Suchitra Vijayan
  Context (an imprint of Westland Publication)
  2021. Pages 320. Rs 699.
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  The Dawn, on Sep 14, 2022, carried a piece on the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, and the last line went this way: “The queen is dead; I hope the system of corruption and looting, of occupation and genocide that she represented perishes too”. Along with these cardinal debaucheries, one would add wanton (…)

• Review Essay: ‘Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi’, by Jairam Ramesh | KS Subramanian
  8 May 2021

  by KS Subramanian
  Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi by Jairam Ramesh Simon & Schuster, India, 2018, pp.518, Price Rs. 799
  This remarkable book is about Parmeshwar Narain Haksar arguably India’s most influential and powerful civil servant under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
  Haksar was Indira Gandhi’s alter ego during her period of glory. The eminent administrator and diplomat, was educated in Allahabad and London; and was called to the Bar from Lincoln ‘s Inn. He (…)

• 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

• Kritskiy’s Review of Glaser, Lee, (eds.) Comintern Aesthetics
  17 December 2021

  Reviewed by Vsevolod Kritskiy (University of Amsterdam) __0__ Comintern Aesthetics
  Amelia M. Glaser, Steven S. Lee, eds.
  Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2020 Illustrations. xxi + 563 pp. $95.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4875-0465-6 __0__
  In Comintern Aesthetics, editors Amelia M. Glaser and Steven S. Lee include sixteen diverse chapters that seek to “remap world literature and culture from the perspective of world communism” (p. 3). In a timely and welcome collection, the contributing (…)