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• 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 (…)

• Why Alternative Development Paradigm Matters? | Jos Chathukulam
  15 March 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

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  Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production
  by Sunil Ray
  Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd (Sharmistha Dutta on behalf of Germinal Publications Pvt. Ltd), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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  Birth of an Alternative Development Paradigm: Unfolding Transformative Mode of Production by Sunil Ray introduces to us a novel development framework

• Book Review: Ram Jethmalani - A Perennial Rebel | M R Narayan Swamy
  6 February 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Title: The Rebel: A Biography of Ram Jethmalani; Author: Susan Adelman; Publishers: Shobhaa De Books (An Imprint of Penguin Random House): Pages: 607; Price: Rs 550
  The legendary Ram Jethmalani, who passed away just before turning 96, was one of the most successful lawyers the Indian sub-continent produced. A legal craftsman, a part-time politician, a maverick of sorts, a quintessential Sindhi, an admirer of good looking women till the very end… Ram was all this and more. Just how did he (…)

• Review of Brunstedt, Jonathan, The Soviet Myth of World War II
  29 March 2025

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  The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR
  by Jonathan Brunstedt
  Cambridge University Press
  Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series
  2021, 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-49875-3
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  Reviewed by Christopher Bishop (University of Southern Mississippi)
  In May 1945, Joseph Stalin raised a toast to the

• Review of Intondi’s, Saving the World from Nuclear War | Eric Ross
  4 January 2025

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  Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond
  by Vincent J. Intondi
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs Series
  2023. 152 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-4640-0
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  Reviewed by Eric Ross (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  In Saving the World from Nuclear War, Vincent J. Intondi offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of the (…)

• An X-Ray of Britain’s scheming and India’s follies on China | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  17 February 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Vintage/Penguin Random House
  Pages: xvii + 235; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0670099910 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670099917 Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s scholarly study is a pointer that Jawaharlal Nehru may not have been the biggest villain of India’s disastrous policy on China after all. Based on startling archival material, Gokhale’s (…)

• Book Review: The Scars of Democracy - Theodor Adorno and the crises of liberalism | Peter E. Gordon
  27 January 2024

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  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 (…)

• Review: No nation for women, reportage on rape from India | Joydip Ghosal
  1 July 2023

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  by Joydip Ghosal
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  No nation for women, reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy
  by Priyanka Dubey
  Simon & Schuster India 2019 / 320 pages ISBN- 978-93-86797-09-4 __0__
  No nation for women: Reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy is the outcome of an intangible confluence of the private and lived experience of suffering mass. It becomes amply clear that while authoring the book the writer unequivocally empathises with (…)

• How Western Generosity Helped Stalin Crush Hitler | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  24 August 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War by Giles Milton
  John Murray (Hachette India) May 2024 Pages: ix + 372; Price: Rs 999 ISBN: 978-1529398519
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  There can be no doubt that steely and raw courage proved the tripping point in the beleaguered Soviet Union’s near impossible military triumph over Germany in World War II. At a time when it was widely feared that Hitler would overrun Moscow after having (…)

• Choices, Priorities, Freedoms and Mahbub ul Haq | Aijaz Ahmed
  25 May 2024

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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. (…)