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Prabhakaran's militarist strategy led to doom, says revealing book | M.R. Narayan Swamy

M R Narayan Swamy — 2026-07-14T18:11:10Z

The seeds for a miserable end to Velupillai Prabhakaran's Tamil Eelam dream were laid by the man himself — a long, long, long time ago.
This is the conclusion one draws after reading a brutally honest and at times painful sketch of the early years of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by one of Prabhakaran's earliest associates, Ganeshan Iyer.
The Tamil work, Porattahil Enadhu Pathivugal, was first published abroad in 2011, two years after Prabhakaran was slain. It was (…)

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Review of Shastri's Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey | P. S. Jayaramu

P S Jayaramu — 2026-07-14T18:11:03Z

Book Review: Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey, by Sandeep Shastri Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd. New Delhi, 2026, Pp.158, Price: Rs. 495. ISBN : 978-93-49389-26-7 Prof. Sandeep Shastri , who is a well known academician writing for decades on electoral poitics, federal relations and about the functioning of India's democratic institutions has penned a book about his academic assignments across the continents from 1993 to 2022. He refers to them as his academic odyssey. (…)

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Sustained from Below: Dalit Women and the Ambedkarite Movement's Limits of Liberation | Theertha Praveen Panachoor

2026-06-24T23:48:40Z

BOOK REVIEW 1. The Prisons We Broke, Baby Kamble, trans. Maya Pandit. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2008. 2. We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement, Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon, trans. Wandana Sonalkar. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2008. The history of the Ambedkarite movement in India has largely been written as a history of its leadership. Its constitutional achievements, its formal organisations and its founding figure are well documented. What has received far less attention is (…)

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Review of Harris's Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income | Domonkos Sik

2026-06-01T03:18:55Z

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Critical Theory and the Critique of Alternative Societies: Co-operatives, Mutual Aid and Universal Basic Income
by Neal Harris
Manchester University Press
2026. 184 pp.,
ISBN 9781526172228
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Reviewed by Domonkos Sik
Neal Harris is taking on a daunting quest: critiquing those emancipatory movements that, by their own definition and according to the mainstream view of Marxist and critical sociology, are supposed to widen the

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Review of Jayaramu's Decoding Indian Politics | Girija K S

2026-05-22T04:26:18Z

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Decoding Indian Politics by P S Jayaramu
Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd., New Delhi.
ISBN NO 978-93-49389-02-1
No of pages: 260
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This book is a compilation of articles written by Prof. P S Jayaramu, formerly Professor of Political science in Bangalore University. An ardent writer and a scholar of Political science and International relations, Professor Jayaramu has produced many students and has guided scholars, has been (…)

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Reading Arundhati Roy Against My Will | Disha

Disha — 2026-05-22T04:26:10Z

For most of my life I have read political writing with a sense of duty rather than desire. I read to stay informed, not to feel changed. The books I encountered often seemed to assume a reader who could absorb weight without needing warmth, and I finished them more knowledgeable, but no more connected to the world they described.
When I picked up the memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me, I expected the same. I did not expect the book to reach the private interior of my reluctance or alter the (…)

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Review of Srinivasulu Karli's Caste, Dominance and Resistance

2026-05-12T16:32:08Z

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Caste, Dominance and Resistance

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Review of Lovejoy, Alice, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War | Joris Mercelis

2026-04-22T08:42:35Z

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Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
by Alice Lovejoy
University of California Press
2025. Illustrations. 256 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-40293-5
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Reviewed by Joris Mercelis (Heinrich Heine University D

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

2026-04-10T00:35:03Z

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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

- 2026 / Book Review

Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

K. Sahadevan — 2026-04-10T00:35:00Z

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Marx in the Anthropocene
Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
by Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo
Cambridge University Press
15 January 2023 | ISBN: 9781108933544
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Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

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