Book Review

Articles

• Scanning P.C. Joshi’s Biography | Daya Varma
  18 April 2009, by Daya Varma
  Review Article
  The following review article has been sent to the Mainstream editor on April 6 with a note from the reviewer that reads:
  “I am submitting a review of Gargi Chakravartty’s P.C. Joshi: A Biography for favour of publication in  (...)
• Excellent Commentary on Assam-Centre Relationship in a Crucial Period
  18 August 2013
  BOOK REVIEW
  by Yogesh Puri
  Gopinath Bardoloi, “The Assam Problem†and Nehru’s Centre by Nirode K. Barooah; Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati; 2010; pp. 675.
  “...The subject I have touched in this book and the material used for the purpose  (...)
• Restoring Peace and Democracy in Chhattisgarh: Inherent Message of a Political Memoir
  27 November 2015, by Gabriele Dietrich
  BOOK REVIEW
  Inside Chhattisgarh: A Political Memoir by Ilina Sen; Penguin Books India; 2014; pages: 307; Price: Rs 399.
  This is an extraordinary book, based on an unusual life-journey, rooted in search of solidarity and democratic transformation  (...)
• All-encompassing Economic History of Indian Peasantry
  26 December 2009, by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
  BOOK REVIEW
  Peasant History of Late Pre-Colonial and Colonial India by Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri; Pearson Education, New Delhi; 2008; pp. xxv+939.
  It is always difficult to review a book by a teacher. Such a review always tends to become a  (...)
• Book Review: Understanding the Nuances of Development
  19 May 2007, by G Narasimha Raghavan
  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  (...)
• A RAW officer’s ordeal in Pakistan & Beyond | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  27 February 2021
  by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  Terror in Islamabad by Amar Bhushan HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 171; Price: Rs 250
  This is a work of fiction only in name. This is an outstanding even if bone-chilling tribute to an Indian intelligence officer  (...)
• Covid-19 Pandemic Drove the Indian Economy on the Brink | Dipak Prakash
  27 February 2021
  Book 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  (...)
• When Sonu Sood Beat Santa Claus | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  5 March 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy
  Title: 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  (...)
• Indian Left in a Pit: The Way Out? Prof. Achin Vanaik Examines | Sukla Sen
  5 March 2021, by Sukla Sen
  by Sukla Sen
  Professor Achin Vanaik, to the discerning Indian public in particular, is quite a familiar name—both as a radical intellectual and an activist as well, especially in the field of anti-nuclear peace movement; is a co-recipient, with  (...)
• Review: The French Revolutionary Script in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802
  19 March 2021
  William S. Cormack. Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies: The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2019. 392 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0395-6.
  Reviewed by  (...)

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