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• Oppenheim on Lee, Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
  5 November 2021

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Robert Oppenheim (University of Texas at Austin)
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  Pop Empires:
  Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
  by S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta, Robert Ji-Song Ku, eds.
  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
  2019. 360 pp.
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  The popularity and transnational reach of Indian popular media, most centrally Bollywood and regional Indian cinemas, have been subject to a great deal of academic attention. Somewhat more recently, (…)

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

  BOOK REVIEW
  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 (…)

• Rishi Sunak: The Success Story of a Minority in Britain | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  25 February 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Rishi Sunak: The Rise
  by Michael Ashcroft
  Hachette India; Pages: 357; Price: Rs 699
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  If Britain was engulfed by a majoritarian ideology, Rishi Sunak would have never become the Prime Minister.
  It goes to the credit of Britain’s democracy that a young man born to Indian immigrants (a Hindu at that) defeated veterans in an overwhelmingly white constituency and finally moved into 10 Downing Street. All that mattered to the Conservatives and British voters (…)

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

  BOOK REVIEW
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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: Raghavan on Heinze’s ’The Most Human Right’
  8 July 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

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  The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze London: The MIT Press 2002 211 Pages ISBN 9780262046459 (hardcover) $27.95
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  Interestingly, the visual artist and utopian author, Robert Alan Silverstein’s statement is accurate on its timing: "The evolution of the human rights movement clearly illustrates humanity’s ongoing struggle toward creating a better world." It is struggle, struggle and struggle that the author, (…)

• Quinn’s Review of Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism by Jason A. Heppler
  5 October 2024

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  Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
  by Jason A. Heppler
  University of Oklahoma Press
  2024. 224 pp.
  (paper) ISBN 978-0-8061-9374-8
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  Reviewed by Adam Quinn (University of Oregon)

• 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 (…)

• Review of Leach, Melissa; Fairhead, James, Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human | Louise Westling
  10 April

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  Naturekind:
  Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
  by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
  Princeton University Press
  2025. 272 pp.
  (paper) ISBN 978-0-691-27066-1
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  Reviewed by Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
  Melissa Leach and James Fairhead offer a bold new perspective of

• 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
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• Review: Subramanian on ’Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas’ by Achala Moulik
  23 December 2023, by K S Subramanian

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  Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas by Achala Moulik
  Niyogi Books
  2023 | 384 Pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8196405332 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8196405335
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  The author, a civil servant-scholar, has the gift for writing about human love in the midst of violence and conflict. The volume contains two moving ‘novellas’; one on India titled ‘With Fate Conspire’ and the other on Afghanistan titled Wait!
  The author’s Note on the first novella draws from Rabindranath Tagore’s dance (…)