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• Review of Iqbal S. Hasnain’s Fault Lines In The Faith | P S Jayaramu
  1 June 2024

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  Fault Lines In The Faith: How events of 1979 shaped the Islamic World
  by Iqbal S. Hasnain
  Rupa
  2023 Pp 279, Price ₹395.
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  Iqbal Syed Hasnain, the author of this book, is a former Pro-Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard and former Vice Chancellor of Calicut University, besides the other assignments he handles. Hasnain has varied interests and the same can be discerned from his interests in Himalayan glaciers and climate (…)

• Review of Nandita Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | Md Umar Faruque
  5 April 2025

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  Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
  by Nandita Haksar
  Speaking Tiger
  ISBN: 978-93-5447-701-0
  Year:2023
  Price: Rs 399/-
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  Manipur has been engulfed in violence since May 3, 2023. So far, hundreds have lost their lives, countless homes have been destroyed, and thousands remain displaced in relief camps. The economy has collapsed, and the education system lies in ruins. (…)

• A Book on Forgotten Refugees | Joydip Ghosal
  22 July 2023

  Forgotten Refugees, Two Iraqi Brothers in India
  by Nandita Haksar
  Speaking Tiger Books LLP
  2022
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  Nandita Haksar is an eminent human rights lawyer who has left her own imprint and set a precedent in the arena of human rights law. Apart from that she is a renowned campaigner and teacher. Both in Indian courts and international fields she fought tirelessly for the rights of refugees whether they were internally displaced people or refugees evicted from (…)

• Review of Monica Liu’s Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise
  23 September 2023

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  Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise by Monica Liu
  Stanford University Press, 2022. xiii + 239 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-3247-9; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3373-5
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  The phenomenon of the mail-order bride has been studied for a long time, with these studies often linking this form of commercialized marriage to women trafficking and the global sex trade. However, (…)

• A RAW officer’s ordeal in Pakistan & Beyond | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  27 February 2021

  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  Terror in Islamabad by Amar Bhushan HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 171; Price: Rs 250
  This is a work of fiction only in name. This is an outstanding even if bone-chilling tribute to an Indian intelligence officer who for three long years fooled Pakistan’s ISI as he ran a network spread all over that country. Unable to digest their failure, ISI bullies abducted and brutally tortured him just before he was to return to India for good. Miraculously, the man (…)

• A Black Woman’s Journey to White House | M R Narayan Swamy
  18 June 2021

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  Reviewed by M R Narayan Swamy
  Becoming
  by Michelle Obama
  published by Viking (an imprint of Penguin Books) ISBN-13:978-0241334140, Pages: 428; Price: Rs 999
  Long before she moved into the opulent White House as the US First Lady, Michelle Obama’s family lived in the poor side of Chicago, one of the few who didn’t own a home. The lack of air-conditioning made the apartment unbearably hot in the afternoons. Michelle, her brother and their parents were packed into less (…)

• Trump Marries Republican Politics to Authoritarianism | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  12 July 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Democracy Awakening:
  Notes on the State of America
  by Heather Cox Richardson
  W H Allen/Penguin Random House
  2024
  Pages: xvii + 286, ISBN-10 ? : ? 0593652983
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  Is Donald Trump mad? Yes and no.
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• Review of Goodman’s How the World Ran Out of Everything | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  12 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S Goodman
  Mariner Books New York/Boston Pages: viii + 406; Price: Rs 599
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  It is now politically fashionable in the US to blame China for all the economic ills the world’s richest country is facing. Yet it was the White House and the American monopoly capital that made Beijing what it is now – a global economic behemoth. (…)

• Teresa Huhle. Review of Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II by Rebecca Herman
  20 April 2024

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  Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
  by Rebecca Herman
  Oxford University Press
  2022. 320 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-753187-7
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  During World War II, the United States Army deployed aircrafts and troops in sixteen Latin American countries, utilizing existing defense sites, but more importantly, constructing numerous new bases. Focusing on Brazil, (…)

• 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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  Reviewed by K S Subramanian
  Introduction
  Dulat