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  • Hiner on Keiser’s ’Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience’
    4 November 2022

    Reviewed by Amanda Hiner (Winthrop University)
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    Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser
    Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
    2020. 324 pp
    (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4479-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4477-7
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    Cognitive literary studies is a dynamic and growing field of academic research that explores intersections between cognitive science and literary texts and their production. (…)

  • Kimberley Peters. Review of Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War
    14 September 2024

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    Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War. Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
    by Rachael Squire
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
    2021. 180 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78660-730-0.
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    Reviewed by Kimberley Peters
    In a recent work-related exchange with a colleague, it was mentioned that many students in the classroom today, in 2024

  • 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 (…)

  • Review of Aruna Roy’s "The Personal Is Political"
    19 July 2024, by Sagari Chhabra

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    The Personal Is Political: An Activist’s Memoir
    by Aruna Roy
    Harpercollins India
    2024
    Pages: 272
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  • A Legendary Conservationist
    2 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Snakes, Drugs and Rock

  • Review of Singh’s Caste, State and Society: Degrees of Democracy in North India | Radhakanta Barik
    3 February 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

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    Caste, State and Society:
    Degrees of Democracy in North India
    by Jagpal Singh
    Routledge India 2021 / 330 Pages ISBN 9780367559748 __0__
    It is an interesting work to explain the position of MBC (Most backward castes) in the context of social economic and political changes happened after Independence. This is a rare study with detailed analysis of capitalism and its impact on the various castes specifically (…)

  • A Sri Lankan officer who even in LTTE custody remained a humanist |
    18 January 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  • Reading Arundhati Roy Against My Will | Disha
    22 May, by Disha

    For most of my life I have read political writing with a sense of duty rather than desire. I read to stay informed, not to feel changed. The books I encountered often seemed to assume a reader who could absorb weight without needing warmth, and I finished them more knowledgeable, but no more connected to the world they described.
    When I picked up the memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me, I expected the same. I did not expect the book to reach the private interior of my reluctance or alter the (…)

  • A Window to Cricket and India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    26 August 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    __0__ Not Just Cricket: A Reporter’s Journey through Modern India by Pradeep Magazine
    HarperCollins India Pages: 371; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354892116 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354892110
    __0__ The best part about Pradeep Magazine is that he just doesn’t love cricket but his heart beats for India. As he exposes the rot in the Indian cricket establishment while hailing some of the finest players the game has produced in this cricket-crazy country, Magazine also takes you to (…)

  • Lessons from Indira Gandhi
    19 July 2025

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    Democracy Enchained, Nation Disgraced: Dark Days of India