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City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan
Harper Collins India 2023 Pages: 297 Price: INR 599/- (Hardcover) ISBN-10 : 9356998248 ISBN-13 : 978-9356998247
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The book under review is a memoir of a young Muslim. It explores the everyday Hindu-Muslim strifes in the U.K (Upar Kot, not to be confused with the United Kingdom), a part of the town of Aligarh (130 kms southeast of Delhi) in Uttar Pradesh, since the 1990s. The memoir can partly (…)
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Review of Khan’s City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh | Sajad Ahmad Dar
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Review of Singh’s My Tributes to Socialist Leaders | Harish Sharma
12 July 2025[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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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 (…) -
How Development Has Become Nature’s Enemy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
17 June 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Marginlands:
Indian Landscapes on the Brink
by Arati Kumar Rao
Picador India
Pages: 240
ISBN-10 : 9395624434
ISBN-13 : 978-9395624435 __0__
Man’s unending penchant for ’development’ is triggering a disaster of epic proportions all across India – and probably in much of the so-called developing world. This is why gigantic projects have deepened the very problems they were supposed to resolve, why urban landscapes have turned a veritable foe for (…) -
Karunanidhi’s Rise and Rise — And Fall | M.R. Narayan Swamy
9 September 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Karunanidhi: A Life
by A.S. Panneerselvan
Penguin/Viking
ISBN: 9780670082940
Pages: 450
Price: Rs 699
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Who was the real Muthuvel Karunanidhi?
A statesman and a visionary? A corrupt politician? A strong advocate of federalism? A Tamil chauvinist? Secular to the core? Anti-Hindu? A leader who aided Tamil Nadu’s progress? LTTE’s godfather? Social reformer?
It would be extremely difficult for anyone to do a political autopsy of one of India’s (…) -
When Thugs and Dacoits Defied the British | M.R. Narayan Swamy
19 November 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Tales of Crimes Past: A Casebook of Crime in Colonial India
by Sunil Nair
Hachette India
Pages: 226; Price: Rs 599
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They were thugs, they held the authorities in contempt, they strangled innocent travellers at will, and they never showed remorse for the innumerable cold-blooded murders they committed. But they were a bizarre lot. Before they set out to kill, they studied good and bad omens. Welcome to the world of thuggery in British India.
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Review of Salman Rushdie’s Knife | Rishav Sharma
1 June 2024https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738826/knife-by-salman-rushdie/
Je Suis Salman
On 12.08.2022, Salman Rushdie was at the amphitheater in Chautauqua, New York to talk about the censorship and security of writers in their country. In a harrowing incident at the venue, he was brutally stabbed multiple times by a religious fanatic, whom the author chooses not to name but call him A. The attack must not be gauged as an isolated incident of violence but an act to terrorize an artist. (…) -
Book Review: The Scars of Democracy - Theodor Adorno and the crises of liberalism | Peter E. Gordon
27 January 2024BOOK REVIEW
Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism
By Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban, trans.
On April 6, 1967, Theodor W. Adorno accepted an invitation from the Association of Socialist Students at the University of Vienna to deliver a lecture on “aspects of the new right-wing extremism.” The topic held a special urgency: The National Democratic Party, a recently founded neofascist group in West Germany, was surging in popularity and would soon surpass the official 5 percent (…) -
Choices, Priorities, Freedoms and Mahbub ul Haq | Aijaz Ahmed
25 May 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Reflections on Human Development Edited by Mahbub ul Haq
Oxford University Press Inc. UK
1996, 272 pages Price: 34 pounds
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The central theme of Mahbub ul Haq’s book, Reflections on Human Development, revolves around a novel development paradigm centered on human well-being. It argues that while income growth is important, it should not be seen as the sole indicator of development nor as the ultimate goal of human life. (…) -
Review of Davaram’s ’Munnar to Marina: The Journey’
29 November 2024, by K S Subramanian[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Munnar to Marina: The Journey
By W I Davaram
Notion Press, 2O24
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reviewed by K. S. Subramanian
This is a brilliant book by W I Davaram, IPS Retd., former Director General of Police, Tamilnadu. The book is in English (with a separate translation in Tamil). Along with a large number of photographs the book is fascinating and an enjoyable read. The book with 408 pages lacks an Index. The author -
Platform Cooperatives as a Path Beyond Corporate Control: Review of Trebor Scholz’s Own This! | K Sahadevan
20 September, by K. SahadevanBOOK REVIEW Own This! How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet by R. Trebor Scholz Verso 2023 If one were asked to select books that share ideas conducive to the systemic transition demanded by our times, Trebor Scholz’s Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet would certainly rank among the first on the list. While I have read numerous books this year that accurately depict the problems and crises facing the present day, (…)