BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Matthew A. Hall (University of California, San Diego)
Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding "Socialism" at All Costs
by Philip B. Minehan
Bloomsbury Academic 2022 - Illustrations. 288 pp. (...)
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Review: Fighting the Left | Matthew A. Hall
7 July 2023 -
Review of K Saradamoni’s ’In Search of Answers: A Memoir’ I B Madhavan
30 September 2023, by B. MadhavanBook Review
by B Madhavan
In Search of Answers: A Memoir by K Saradamoni
Tulika Books August 2023 245 Pages ISBN : 978-81-958394-0-7
Studying in the university, one meets students who are unsure where the discipline of economics (...) -
Review: Dreeze on Revising the Revolution by Larry E. Holmes
22 July 2022Reviewed by Jonathon Dreeze (Cornell College) __0__ Revising the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia’s Official History of 1917
by Larry E. Holmes
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2021. 220 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-0-253-05479-1; $27.99 (...) -
A Revolutionary Revolt Pre-1857 | M R Narayan Swamy
27 November 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
Foreshadowing the Great Rebellion: The Vellore Revolt, 1806 by K.A. Manikumar
Orient BlackSwan
ISBN 9789354421181
Pages 288
Price: Rs 695
About half a century before the 1857 Rebellion or the First War of Independence, (...) -
Review: Emily Laurent-Monaghan on ‘Pleasure Erased’ by Catherine Malabou
23 December 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Emily Laurent-Monaghan
Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought by Catherine Malabou
Polity 2022. 150 pp. ISBN-10 : 1509549935 ISBN-13 : 978-1509549931
Unlike ‘woman’ or ‘sex’, the clitoris is not an (...) -
Review Essay: ‘Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi’, by Jairam Ramesh | KS Subramanian
8 May 2021by KS Subramanian
Intertwined Lives: PN Haksar and Indira Gandhi by Jairam Ramesh Simon & Schuster, India, 2018, pp.518, Price Rs. 799
This remarkable book is about Parmeshwar Narain Haksar arguably India’s most influential and powerful (...) -
A Classic on Indian Magic | M.R. Narayan Swamy
15 April 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
Jadoowallahas, Jugglers, and Jinns:
A Magical History of India
by John Zubrzycki
Pan Macmillan India — Picador India Pages: 508 ISBN 9789386215352 __0__
Magic, in case you did not know, is as old as India. Indeed, the blurred (...) -
Khushwant Singh was far-sighted saw fascism rising / Dipankar Gupta’s book of Lockdown | Humra Quraishi
7 July 2023, by Humra Quraishi6 July 2023
Khushwant Singh was far-sighted. Over 10 years back, before he passed away in 2014, he was worried about — RISE OF FASCISM in the country.
Khushwant Singh’s worries were several in terms of the political scenario in the country. He (...) -
Bhagat’s Review of Toxic Immanence by Livia Monnet
15 July 2023Reviewed by Raina Bhagat (Northwestern University)
Toxic Immanence:
Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures
by Livia Monnet
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. 472 pp. ISBN 978-0-228-01136-1
Toxic Immanence: (...) -
Covid-19 Pandemic Drove the Indian Economy on the Brink | Dipak Prakash
27 February 2021Book Review by Dipak Prakash *
Indian economy’s greatest crisis: Impact of the Coronavirus and the road ahead by Arun Kumar Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 264 pages - Dec 31, 2020
The author Prof. Arun Kumar (well known for his (...)