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• When Two Ancient Cultures Fall In Love | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  17 August 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Rebels, Traitors, Peacemakers: The Stories of Love and Conflict in Indian-Chinese Relationships
  by Shivaji Das, Yolanda Yu
  Penguin Books Pages: xv + 214 ISBN-10 : 9815127144 ISBN-13 : 978-9815127140
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  What happens when the lives of people from two great civilizations collide?
  It could probably result in an ugly and perhaps bloody encounter if they met on the disputed Sino-Indian frontier. On the contrary, love could (…)

• The Artist as A Quiet
  17 May 2024

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  Leela Mukherjee A Guileless Modernist

• A Candid Autobiography of a Chief Minister | Joydip Ghosal
  7 June 2024

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  One Among You - Vol 1 The Autobiography of M.K Stalin
  (Translated by A.S Panneerselvan)
  Penguin Viking
  2023 | 152 pages
  ISBN-9780670098361
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  ‘One Among You’, The Autobiography of M.K. Stalin is about the first twenty- three years of his life. In the introduction the author says that it is always a pleasure to reflect on the path one has travelled and recollect the past. Everyone’s face glows when we delve deeper into (…)

• Ruble’s Review of Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland
  17 February 2024

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  Reviewed by Alexandria Ruble (University of Idaho)
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  Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland
  Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2022. viii + 239 pp. ISBN: 9780197267110
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  In many societies, even today, the voices of women who have endured domestic violence remain muted. Jane Freeland’s fantastic new monograph provides survivors and the (…)

• A Revolutionary Revolt Pre-1857 | M R Narayan Swamy
  27 November 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Foreshadowing the Great Rebellion: The Vellore Revolt, 1806 by K.A. Manikumar
  Orient BlackSwan
  ISBN 9789354421181
  Pages 288
  Price: Rs 695
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  About half a century before the 1857 Rebellion or the First War of Independence, hundreds of Indian soldiers of the East India Company revolted against the British in 1806 in Vellore in present day Tamil Nadu. It was brutally crushed and hundreds of soldiers were mercilessly slaughtered by the British. In many ways, the (…)

• Valour and Distress in India-Pakistan Wars | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  21 January 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  1971, 1999 War Stories
  by Air Commodore Nitin Sathe
  Vitasta
  Pages: 223; Price: Rs 525
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  Air Commodore Jawahar Lal Bhargava survived Pakistani custody in the 1971 war because — believe it or not — he had a cricket coach who had helped him once play for the Ranji Trophy.
  Bhargava was flying an Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jet over Pakistan when it got hit by ground fire and he ejected using a parachute. He was captured after hitting the land.
  “Dalle nu (…)

• 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 (…)

• Review of Vakil, Ganjavii, Khanlarzadeh’s Revolutionary Engineers | Ernest Lee
  20 September 2025

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  Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology
  by Sepehr Vakil, Mahdi Ganjavi, Mina Khanlarzadeh
  MIT Press
  2025. 217 pp. (paper) ISBN 9780262552196 | ISBN electronic: 9780262382830
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  Reviewed by Ernest Lee (University of Chicago)
  Aryameh University of Technology (AMUT)

• A comprehensive document on strides of the Indian army during the Second World War | Joydip Ghosal
  20 May 2023

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  Saving the World from Hitler by R. Prasannan
  Manorama Books
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8189004395 • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8189004392
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  Saving the World from Hitler, India’s battle in world war II a recent contribution to the literature of the second world war is a valuable account that sheds light on the unknown aspect i.e. the gallantry and display of valour on the battlefield by Indian soldiers. Written in a racy style and interspersed with curious (…)

• Review: Rani and Raza on Heewon Kim’s The Struggle for Equality
  27 May 2022

  Reviewed by: Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza
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  Cambridge University Press 2019 Pages‘s: 247 Online ISBN: 9781108235839
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  The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government (2004-14) led by the congress came to power with strong policy initiative for the religious minorities of India more specifically aiming at Muslims. A series of measure were identified for the implementation to create (…)