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  • When Sonu Sood Beat Santa Claus | M.R. Narayan Swamy
    5 March 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

    Title: I Am No Messiah; Author: Sonu Sood with Meena K. Iyer; Publisher: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House); Pages: 215; Price: Rs 399
    This is a heart-warming and a candid account of how actor Sonu Sood achieved the impossible: in the worst nightmarish months of Covid-19, he became a one point of hope and instant action for countless people across the country and beyond. At a time when administrations appeared to collapse and “celebrities” retreated into safe cocoons, this man from Moga (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Review of Markus Rediker et. al. (eds.) A Global History of Runaways | Mark Dunick
    6 April 2024

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    A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850
    by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum, eds.
    University of California Press 2019. Pages: 280 ISBN: 9780520304369.
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    Workers on the Run during the Rise of Capitalism
    The rise of the European empires between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries led to the creation of an increasingly global economic system based on long-distance trade, commodity production, and (…)

  • It’s All About Modi, Only Modi | Papri Sri Raman
    6 April 2024, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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    India’s Soul Possessed
    by L K Sharma
    Kindle Edition
    Notion Press
    July 18, 2023 | 471 pages | ASIN : B0CF53VX53
    via Amazon
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    The writer of the book, India’s Soul Possessed: New India

  • Lukas Ley’s Review of The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobbette
    12 April 2024

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    Review by Lukas Ley
    __0__ The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java by Adam Bobbette
    Duke University Press 2023. 248 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-2708-9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-2505-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-2007-3
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    Dandy Volcanoes
    The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobette invites readers to get up close to the formation of the earth. This book is about active volcanoes in Indonesia, whose craters animate both (…)

  • Freeman’s Review of Elizabeth Flock. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
    4 May 2024

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    Reviewed by Jo Freeman
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    The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth Flock
    Harper 2024. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780063048805 ISBN 10: 0063048809
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    Women Who Fight Back
    The author’s quest to find women who fought back began when she was raped by a tour guide in Rome after he slipped her a sedative. She did not report the incident because she did not think anyone would believe her. But it consumed her thoughts for (…)

  • Review of Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations | Anand Chakravarti
    4 May 2024, by Anand Chakravarti

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    The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
    by Alpa Shah
    HarperCollins Publishers India 2024, xxii + 561pp. Rs.699 P-ISBN 978-93-5489-986-7 (Paperback)
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    This is a book by a scholar of conscience – one who is deeply affected by the perverse use of state power to incarcerate sixteen persons accused of conspiring against the state in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case (henceforth BK case, and (…)

  • 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: (…)

  • Will the Sun Shine Again in Manipur? | Arup Kumar Sen
    22 June 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

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    Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
    by Nandita Haksar
    Speaking tiger (5 January 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354477011 | ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354477010
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    Manipur is burning with hate and violence since May 2023. We the outsiders do not know what triggered this vicious cycle of violence. Nandita Haksar’s recently published book, Shooting the Sun: Why (…)

  • Review of Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | KS Subramanian
    12 July 2024, by K S Subramanian

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    Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
    by Nandita Haksar
    Speaking Tiger 2023, Rs 399
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    Prelude
    Manipur was an independent kingdom with a constitution of its own when it was forcibly taken over by India in 1949 in the name of national integration. The resulting resistance and insurgencies are characteristic features of the state. State (…)