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• Why Doesn’t India Wage War Against Tax Havens? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  14 October 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Black Money and Tax Havens (Updated Edition) R. Vaidyanathan
  Penguin Books ISBN: 9780143459446 Pages: xvi + 254; Price: Rs. 399 __0__
  This is an authoritative book on tax havens and why the superrich all around the world love them. When it comes to India, two unpleasant conclusions can be drawn. One, the Congress party, whatever it may now say about the Adanis, never showed any serious intent to bring back money stolen from India and stashed away abroad. Equally (…)

• Review of Spy Master & Chief Minister | K S Subramanian
  5 July 2025, by K S Subramanian

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  The Chief Minister and the Spy:
  An Unlikely Friendship
  by Dulat A.S
  Juggernaut Books
  2024, pp.289 | ISBN:9789353454746
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• 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: Thakuria on Marriott’s edited volume, India through Hindu Categories
  7 January 2023

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  India through Hindu Categories
  by McKim Marriott (ed.)
  New Delhi: Sage
  1990. Xvi+209 pp. Plates, Maps, References, Errata, Index. Rs. 450 (hardback)
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  This book is an ambitious attempt in the form of collective effort of academic intellectuals to understand social behaviour of people from cultural categories, splitting out from the bias of general social science which analyses social behaviour and configuration under certain fixed (…)

• Review of Sohal’s The Muslim Secular | Raheel Bashir & Aamir Jamal Khan
  15 February 2025

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  The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India

• Review: Subramanian on ’Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas’ by Achala Moulik
  23 December 2023, by K S Subramanian

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  Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas by Achala Moulik
  Niyogi Books
  2023 | 384 Pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8196405332 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8196405335
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  The author, a civil servant-scholar, has the gift for writing about human love in the midst of violence and conflict. The volume contains two moving ‘novellas’; one on India titled ‘With Fate Conspire’ and the other on Afghanistan titled Wait!
  The author’s Note on the first novella draws from Rabindranath Tagore’s dance (…)