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Borders Are Not Real | G Narasimha Raghavan

G Narasimha Raghavan — 2022-12-16T00:25:46Z

Book Review
Border Nation
A Story of Migration
by Leah Cowan
Pluto Press, London
2021 ISBN 978 0 7453 4107 1 (Paperback) __0__
The UK's border regulations and migration conundrums take a heavy verbal beating from Leah Cowan. The book Border Nation, a very challenging read, rich with examples, useful references and contemporary allusions, is Cowan's first book. In this book, Cowan, a British citizen and former Politics Editor at gal-dem (an online magazine and media platform run (…)

- 2022 / Book Review

Review: Raghavan on 'New threats to human security in the Anthropocene' by UNDP

G Narasimha Raghavan — 2022-12-02T17:03:58Z

Reviewed by G Narasimha Raghavan __0__
New threats to human security in the Anthropocene:
Demanding greater solidarity
United Nations Development Programme New York: UNDP - 2022, viii+175 pages
Available at: https://hdr.undp.org/content/2022-special-report-human-security __0__
The renowned cognitive psychologist, Steven Pinker, said that we are all visual creatures. Images, rather than sound, impact us more. There are three images during the most recent period (an unofficial unit (…)

- 2022 / Book Review

Review: Raghavan on Vijayan's Midnight's Borders

G Narasimha Raghavan — 2022-10-21T20:42:04Z

BOOK REVIEW
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Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
by Suchitra Vijayan
Context (an imprint of Westland Publication)
2021. Pages 320. Rs 699.
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The Dawn, on Sep 14, 2022, carried a piece on the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, and the last line went this way: “The queen is dead; I hope the system of corruption and looting, of occupation and genocide that she represented perishes too”. Along with these cardinal debaucheries, one would add wanton (…)

- 2022 / Book Review

Review: Raghavan on Heinze's 'The Most Human Right'

G Narasimha Raghavan — 2022-07-08T18:13:43Z

Book Review by G Narasimha Raghavan __0__
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, (…)

- 2022 / Book Review

Inevitability of Copyright Law?

G Narasimha Raghavan — 2008-03-16T22:31:32Z

[(BOOK REVIEW)]
The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the Economics, Politics and Ideology of Copyright in the Global South edited by Alan Story, Colin Darch and Debora Halbert; The Copy/South Research Group; Kent; 2006.
Theological affiliations apart, Mark Twain's statement—“only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law in the planet”—is too tempting to be refuted, especially for the global South. If not, how can one make sense of most nations' copyright (…)

- March 15, 2008

Book Review: Understanding the Nuances of Development

G Narasimha Raghavan — 2007-05-19T09:18:28Z

Development Discourse: Issues and Concerns by T.K. Oommen; Regency Publications, New Delhi; 2004 .
Back in 1965, Dudley Seers wondered aloud:
What has been happening to poverty? What has been happening to unemployment? What has been happening to inequality? If all three of these have become less severe, then beyond doubt this has been a period of development for the country concerned. If one or two of these central problems have been growing worse, especially if all three have, it would (…)

- May 19, 2007 / Book Review