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• Mark Hurst. Review of Martin, Barbara, Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union
  12 October 2024

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  Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union
  by Barbara Martin
  Academic Studies Press
  2023. 260 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 979-88-87191-81-2.
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  Reviewed by Mark Hurst (Lancaster University)
  During the twentieth century, opposition to the Soviet regime took a variety of shapes and sizes. In the latter years of the Cold War, the Western perception of the so-called Soviet dissident movement was dominated by two Nobel (…)

• Marais’s Review of An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology by Jole Shackelford
  25 May 2024

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  An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology, Volume 1: Biological Rhythms Emerge as a Subject of Scientific Research
  by Jole Shackelford
  University of Pittsburgh Press 2022. 332 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4732-5
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  Reviewed by Johanné Marais
  If you are not yet thinking of the cyclical nature in everything, you may want to pick up Jole Shackelford’s An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology, Volume 1: Biological (…)

• Review of Bala Ramulu Chinnala’s Development Strategies and Governance in India | Srinivasulu Karli
  22 November 2025, by Karli Srinivasulu

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  Development Strategies and Governance in India:
  Predicaments and Challenges
  by Bala Ramulu Chinnala
  Routledge
  2025
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  Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
  Post-independent India

• Indian State Kills a Muslim’s Soul | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  24 February 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Diary of Gul Mohammad: A Kashmiri Muslim Boy’s Journey from Kashmir to Kerala
  by Humra Quraishi
  Oxford University Press Pages: x + 172; Price: Rs 185
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  He is all of 14 years when Gul Mohammad’s worried family decides it will be best if he is shifted out of the Kashmir Valley for his own safety. The situation in Kashmir is pathetic, what with trigger-happy security personnel viewing virtually every Kashmiri youth as (…)

• Review of India’s National Security Challenges Edited by NN Vohra
  16 December 2023, by K S Subramanian

  Reviewed by KS Subramanian IPS (retd)
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  India’s National Security Challenges Edited by NN Vohra India International Centre, New Delhi Primus Books
  2023 HB ISBN : 978-93-5852-037-8
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  This is a collection of articles on India’s national security, edited by N N Vohra former J& K Governor (2008-18) and Life Trustee of the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi, devoted to promotion of discussion on national security and similar issues.
  The Covid 19 pandemic had (…)

• Book Review: What Can India do in Afghanistan? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  1 July 2022

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  Afghanistan: The New Great Game
  Edited by Alok Bansal
  Pentagon Press LLP; Pages: 201; Price: Rs 895 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390095492
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  Now that America has blundered and Pakistan has scored a strategic victory with the return of the Taliban, what are India’s options vis-à-vis Afghanistan?
  Can there be a meeting point between a country like India and a radical Islamist outfit like Taliban?
  One of the best known experts on the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, (…)

• Review of Hoxha, Artan R.. Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania | Andrew Pfannkuche
  22 March 2025

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  Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania
  by Artan R. Hoxha
  Central European University Press
  2023. xi + 293 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 9789633866160.
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  Reviewed by Andrew Pfannkuche (Universit

• Celebrating Multi-Cultural Lives and the Possible India | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
  26 August 2022

  Book Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
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  Harper Collins, Publishers India 2022 189 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354895883 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354895883 __0__
  Seema Chishti’s slim book is a tribute to her parents, and to the secular, multi-cultural “mini-India” that they created. Sumitra Bai and Anees Mohammed Chishti came together across region (she from Karnataka, he from Uttar Pradesh), religion (her Kayasth (…)

• IFS Officer Recalls Charms, Challenges | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  22 July 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Indian Foreign Service: Charms and Challenges by T.P. Sreenivasan
  Current Books ISBN : 978-93-5482-615-3 Pages:108 Price: Rs 250 https://ebooks.dcbooks.com/indian-foreign-service-charms-and-challenges
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  Nawaz Sharif told Inder Kumar Gujral that neither could India give Kashmir to Pakistan nor could Islamabad take it; most Indian expatriates may have their minds in India but do not want to live there; Foreign Secretary Jagat Mehta was eased out of office by a (…)

• The Artist as A Quiet
  17 May 2024

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  Leela Mukherjee A Guileless Modernist