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Review of Spy Master & Chief Minister | K S Subramanian

K S Subramanian — 2025-07-05T05:31:26Z

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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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Introduction
Dulat

- 2025 / Book Review

Need for a special law to protect and promote minority rights in the criminal justice system | KS Subramanian

K S Subramanian — 2025-03-01T04:16:35Z

The below text was presented at Discussion on Indian Constitution @75: A Federal Democracy Perspective, 25 January 2025
Minority rights in India are in dire straits as revealed in the January 2018 horrific abduction, gangrape and murder in a Hindu temple, of the eight-year-old Asifa Bano of the minority Muslim community at Kathua in Jammu & Kashmir. The culprits were from the majority Hindu community represented by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The persisting violence and (…)

- 2025

Review of Davaram's 'Munnar to Marina: The Journey'

K S Subramanian — 2024-11-29T12:51:26Z

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Munnar to Marina: The Journey
By W I Davaram
Notion Press, 2O24
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reviewed by K. S. Subramanian
This is a brilliant book by W I Davaram, IPS Retd., former Director General of Police, Tamilnadu. The book is in English (with a separate translation in Tamil). Along with a large number of photographs the book is fascinating and an enjoyable read. The book with 408 pages lacks an Index. The author

- 2024 / Book Review

Subramanian's Review of Kathmandu Chronicle by Rajan and Thakur

K S Subramanian — 2024-10-05T02:18:41Z

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Kathmandu Chronicle
Reclaiming India

- 2024 / Book Review

Review of Haksar's Shooting the Sun | KS Subramanian

K S Subramanian — 2024-07-12T20:21:28Z

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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 repression (…)

- 2024 / Book Review

Review of Hari Singh's Looking Back with Delight | Subramanian

K S Subramanian — 2024-01-12T05:29:03Z

Reviewed by KS Subramanian
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Looking Back with Delight: A Memoir by Hari Singh
Solicitor and Notary Public, England and Wales (Academy of Business Studies, New Delhi)
pp 320 Price Rs. 890 $ 20.99
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This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary personality who is solicitor and notary public in the UK and the Wales. The book tells his life experience in India, his land of birth and the UK his land of professional experience as a civil servant, legal luminary and (…)

- 2024 / Book Review

Review: Subramanian on 'Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas' by Achala Moulik

K S Subramanian — 2023-12-23T02:16:22Z

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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 (…)

- 2023 / Book Review

Review of India's National Security Challenges Edited by NN Vohra

K S Subramanian — 2023-12-16T05:05:08Z

Reviewed by KS Subramanian IPS (retd)
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India's National Security Challenges Edited by NN Vohra India International Centre, New Delhi Primus Books
2023 HB ISBN : 978-93-5852-037-8
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This is a collection of articles on India's national security, edited by N N Vohra former J& K Governor (2008-18) and Life Trustee of the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi, devoted to promotion of discussion on national security and similar issues.
The Covid 19 pandemic had (…)

- 2023 / Book Review

Manipur's Saga of Rape and Murder and the Capricious Cops That Let The Culprits Free | KS Subramanian

K S Subramanian — 2023-12-09T05:09:13Z

The ongoing saga of rape and murder in Manipur is now widely known but little is known about the laws and the cops that lets them go on, namely The Armed Forces Special Powers Act, (AFSPA) 1958 and the central paramilitary agency Assam Rifles (AR) 1835. Please see my books ‘Security, Governance and Democratic Rights: says on the Northeast' (ed.) Niyogi, 2014, and ‘State, Policy and Conflicts, Essays in NE India' Routledge, 2016. We are not dealing here with the rest of the Northeast though (…)

- 2023

Prakash Singh and the Future of Police Reforms in Independent India | KS Subramanian

K S Subramanian — 2023-03-11T00:54:12Z

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The Struggle For Police Reforms in India : Ruler's Police to People's Police by Prakash Singh
Rupa Publications India May 2022 Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9355202474 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9355202475
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Prakash Singh is a leading former IPS officers of India. He belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre of the IPS and was the state's Director General of Police. He was also DG of the Border Security Force, a Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) such as the CRPF (…)

- 2023 / Book Review