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

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  • Book Review: Subramanian on Moulik’s ’Rogues among the Ruins’
    18 June 2021

    ‘Rogues among the Ruins’
    by Achala Moulik
    December 2021 | 312 pages
    ISBN: 978-93-89136-69-2
    Olive Turtle - Niyogi Books
    The novel by Achala Moulik titled ‘Rogues among the Ruins’, Neogi Publishers, was debated recently at a book discussion at the IIC New Delhi. I was among the five discussants, including the distinguished author who explained why she wrote the novel. The discussion was stimulating.
    The author was educated abroad and took a degree from the London University. She (…)

  • Cutting-Jones Review of Katz-Rosene, Ryan M.; Martin, Sarah J., eds., Green Meat
    29 October 2021

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    by Hannah Cutting-Jones
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    Green Meat? Sustaining Eaters, Animals, and the Planet
    by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, Sarah J. Martin, eds.
    April 2020
    272 pp.
    ISBN 9780228001331
    Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. __0__
    Green Meat? takes on a critically important and complex issue: whether meat can or should be part of a sustainable food system in a future clouded by climate change. Central to the debates laid out in this collection of essays are competing (…)

  • Review of Kaplan and Illouz’s ’What is Sexual Capital?’’
    12 April 2024

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    What is Sexual Capital?
    by Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz
    Polity Press, Cambridge 2022. 140 pp., pb ISBN 9781509552320
    Reviewed by Emily Laurent-Monaghan
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    Beginning with a note of irony, What is Sexual Capital? poses a seemingly straightforward question: ’what is sexual capital?’ The authors Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz begin by taking stock of recent sociological efforts to pursue the task of doing sociology more joyfully, to (…)

  • A Hard Look at Indian Muslims and Secularism | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    27 January 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Polarised Times: Living in India Today Anil Maheshwari
    Vitasta; Pages: xx + 398; Price: Rs 599
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    Veteran journalist Anil Maheshwari is as secular as any Indian can be. He is emphatic that labelling the entire Muslim community as anti-national is both grossly unfair and goes against democratic values. Also, Indian Muslims are not answerable for the wrongs committed in (or by) Pakistan. And they are equally not responsible to today’s Hindus for the wrongs the (…)

  • A Report Card on India
    11 October 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

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    A recently published book, To Kill A Democracy: India

  • 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 (…)

  • Raza on Hindi translation of Maulana Azad speech Qaul-e-Faisal
    26 November 2022

    Book Review by Aamir Raza
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    Qaul-e-Faisal: Insaaf ki baat by Maulana Azad Translated by Mohammad Naushad
    Setu Prakashan 198 pages Rs 325
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    The sedition law in India has colonial origin and served as an effective tool in the hands of the British imperialist rulers to suppress dissent against its actions and policies. In the last few years, the number of Sedition cases filed against the individual has risen substantially. The Sedition law has been repeatedly used to harass (…)

  • Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes A Strong Case for Justice to Victimized Maruti Workers | Bharat Dogra
    1 July 2023, by Bharat Dogra

    Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar have just written a book that simply has to be read by anyone interested in the welfare of industrial workers in India. This is also a must reading for all Japanese people involved with human rights to get a glimpse of the havoc their companies cause in the lives of innocent workers and poor people in developing countries.
    The reference here is to a book on victimized Maruti Suzuki workers titled ‘Japanese Management, Indian Resistance—The Struggles of (…)

  • Indian History or Propaganda? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    11 March 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Don’t Forward That Text! Separating Myths from History on Social Media
    by Amit Schandillia
    HarperCollins India Pages: 303 Price: Rs 399
    So, many Hindu temples did Tipu Sultan destroy?
    Many, most might answer. Innumerable, Hindu radicals are bound to assert. History communicator Amit Schandilia’s meticulous research leads to findings that are bound to shock everyone: those who view the Muslim king positively and those who hate him.
    At the height of the (…)