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Indian Cities: Ancient and Medieval by Raghavan Srinivasan
Hachette India Pages: xi + 180; Price: Rs 399 ISBN-10 : 9357312501 ISBN-13 : 978-9357312509 __0__
It is a matter of immense pity that Indians do not build and (...)
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A Marvel that Indian Cities Once Were | M.R. Narayan Swamy
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Social justice warriors effecting the change | Joydip Ghosal
10 February 2023Review Joydip Ghosal *
__0__ Being the Change: In the Footsteps of the Mahatma
by Ashutosh Salil, Barkha Mathur
HarperCollins India (23 September 2022) Paperback : 176 pages ISBN-10 : 9356291985 ISBN-13 : 978-9356291980
The only (...) -
A Black Woman’s Journey to White House | M R Narayan Swamy
18 June 2021BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by M R Narayan Swamy
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
published by Viking (an imprint of Penguin Books) ISBN-13:978-0241334140, Pages: 428; Price: Rs 999
Long before she moved into the opulent White House as the US First Lady, (...) -
Durjan Singh—Biography of an Activist who fought for the Rights of the Poorest | Bharat Dogra
9 March, by Bharat DograBOOK REVIEW
This is a short but very inspiring and interesting biography of a communist activist who struggled for the rights of the poorest people in Bundelkhand region. Keeping in view the weakness of the communist parties in the Hindi belt (...) -
Review of Rashme Sehgal’s The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri | Enakshi Ganguly
12 March 2021Reviewed by Enakshi Ganguly *
The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri by Rashme Sehgal Mahanadi Books. 2020 [ Available via Amazon]
Indians love visiting religious destinations. Pilgrims are invited to explore sacred places. The sacred temple of (...) -
Review of The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army
21 May 2022Reviewed by Ryan W. Booth (Washington State University)
The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army
by Raymond Callahan, Daniel Marston
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas January 2021 296 pages ISBN-10 : (...) -
When Sonu Sood Beat Santa Claus | M.R. Narayan Swamy
5 March 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyTitle: 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 (...) -
The formative years of a communist organiser | Joydip Ghosal
9 MarchBOOK REVIEW
An Education for Rita A Memoir 1975-1985
by Brinda Karat
Leftword, January 2024
(Paperback) ISBN 978-93-92018-21-3
Brinda Karat, a former member of Rajya Sabha is one of the founders of All India Democratic Women’s (...) -
Kritskiy’s Review of Glaser, Lee, (eds.) Comintern Aesthetics
17 December 2021Reviewed by Vsevolod Kritskiy (University of Amsterdam) __0__ Comintern Aesthetics
Amelia M. Glaser, Steven S. Lee, eds.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2020 Illustrations. xxi + 563 pp. $95.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4875-0465-6 __0__
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Periyar’s Revolutionary Critique of Religion | M.R. Narayan Swamy
13 August 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW __0__
Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism by Karthick Ram Manoharan
Orient BlackSwan March 2022 Pages: 133; Price: Rs 225 ISBN-10 : 9354421679 ISBN-13 : 978-9354421679
Believe it or not, it was Periyar’s pilgrimage to one of (...)