Hashtag Manipur: Big Brother is (not) watching you!
A Commentary on Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent Nandita Haksar, New Delhi, Speaking Tiger, 2023, pages – 260. Among many facets…
A Commentary on Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent Nandita Haksar, New Delhi, Speaking Tiger, 2023, pages – 260. Among many facets…
A few pieces of rock T G Jacob’s comment – “communists all over the world have failed to evolve an alternative system of development even after revolutions” in the “nature…
This small book for young children – through its fables – could garner the political forces to change the present regime in India. Titled ‘Brighten Your Life’ the book has…
Harvard University Press presents Where the Negroes are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade, by Randy J. Sparks. Cambridge, MA: 2014, 328 pages, $26.70. In…
Retired philosophy professor and communist Paul Gomberg has written a truly revolutionary book about racism. By this I do not mean just that he believes the revolutionary destruction of capitalism…
Tulsidas Balaram: The Boy, the Hero, The Tormented Footballer. A Biography. by Sudipta Biswas, Hawakal Publishers, Pg: 329, Price: Rs 550 In a country obsessed with multimillionaire male cricketers, superbly…
This is a book to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Bicycle from the perspective of Indian women. To begin with it has a section on the role of bicycles in…
“Where do you find hope?” “How do you sustain hope?” Those are probably the most common questions in response to more than three decades of writing and lecturing about today’s…
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…
Eco-Socialism or “Green” Capitalism?, Collected Writings of Saral Sarkar, Explanations, Elaborations and Interventions, Vols. I and II present most of Saral Sarkar’s political and political-economic essays and articles written in…
Siddhartha Deb, Haymarket Books, forthcoming I am an academic-manque, who made it only as far as a master’s in South Asian studies. My master’s thesis was about the rise of…
This is about a great book that has almost never been published, or rather we should say that has never been published properly. We are talking about a diary written…
I finished reading Nabokov’s Lolita again after many years, and this time it was strange reading it as the mother of an eleven-year old daughter. There are some books that…
New Delhi, February 6, 2024: The Business and Community Foundation today released a new book “Managing A Million Missions” co-authored by Prof Muthusami Kumaran and Mr Mathew Cherian, at a…
While studying conflicts, Ray Dalio found: “[I]n most cases, before there is a shooting war, there is a mix of escalating economic, technological, geopolitical, and capital wars.”1 The study found,…
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. – Antonio Gramsci In The Colonial Constitution: An Origin Story, Arghya…
I picked up a copy of Joanna L. Dyl’s excellent 2019 book, Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake, purely by chance, while I was doing some…
The Arabs - A History. Eugene Rogan. Basic Books, New York, 2009. Revised 2017. While the genocide has raged on in Gaza I have been reading Eugene Rogan’s large work…
A recent collection of Hindi translation of Punjabi short stories brought out by the National Book Trust deserves wide attention and appreciation due to its exceptionally brilliant portrayal of socio-economic…
by Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first…
Eds. Christophe Jaffrelot and Narender Kumar, pp. xxiii + 253. New Delhi: Oxford University Press and Indian Institute of Dalit Studies. 2018. Rs. 950/- B.R. Ambedkar is one of the…
by Brishti Sen Banerjee & Rajorshi Ray ‘Because I never went to jail, because I trained with a rifle but never fired a bullet at anyone, does that mean I…
Review of '1984 - When they came for Sikhs' by Gurpreet Singh "The Books Want to Say Something Of the ages gone by Of the World, Of the People ....…
There is a common quibble in the western society that Arabs are not befitted for democracy. Especially after the fall of the dictators of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and later Yemen,…
Review of “H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars.” By Kunal Purohit It is no irony that Walter Benjamin met his death while fleeing the Nazis. His famous tract…
The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit. Aside from losing their land to global investors and big agribusiness concerns, people are being sickened by…
Against Erasure (Haymarket Books) is a book, edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro, that presents a pictorial history of Palestinians. The photos refute the often-heard canard that Palestine was…
Adam Aron has written an ambitious book, one he intends to be the book on the subject of the climate crisis; and he has succeeded in many ways, especially for…
A recent book on Hindi journalism edited by Atal Tewari and published by Setu Prakshan is a very welcome addition to the rather limited literature on Hindi journalism relative to…
Students of American history realize that we as a people have experienced quite a few ' Ages of National Anxiety'. Looking back but within 110 years or so we know…
The reading by Ratna Pathak Shah last evening from Sudha Bharadwaj’s book about days in the death row in jail, reminded me of a thrilling Marathi play Thank You Mr…
The issue – bicycle – seems strange and absurd, but fact, and easy to observe, but, often goes unnoticed. “A bicycle is a machine most compatible with human beings-its rider.…
Burnaby-based writer Nadeem Parmar pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing what is happening in the world’s so-called largest democracy under a right wing regime. His novel 2025 (Beeh…
Imperialist sanctions stand as instrument of coercion, and is shrouded with lies. In recent years, using the measure of sanction has turned out as a standard response to international controversies.…
The book ‘Essays on the Changing Nature of the Indian State’ is a commentary on contemporary India. The book tries to capture such nuances of the changing nature of the…
Can a song trigger a murder?Can a poem spark a riot?Can a book divide a people? These lines are from the back cover of a newly released book by Kunal…
This excerpt is being published from the Preface of the book "Post-Hindu India" written for the new edition by the author published here with permission from publishers. The launch of the…
Author: M. Adil Khan, Publisher South Asia Journal ISBN 978-0-9995649-2-9 Hardcover US$ 28.00 BDT 750 185 pages To order the book, please email [email protected] The Review M.…
New York: Public Affairs Press, 2023. ISBN: 978 1541788978 (hardcover) This is a fascinating book that invites the attention of all activists around the world. Building off his work, I…
Written for the reprint of Ambu H. Patel (Ed): Struggle for ‘Release Jomo & Colleagues’. Nairobi: Vita Books (Forthcoming). The book, Struggle for Release of Jomo and his Colleagues…
The book ‘Changing Nature of Indian State’ is a commentary on contemporary India which is witnessing a new political template of 80 versus 20% politics, to make India a majoritarian…
Much before the rise of the nefarious agribusiness, harvesting was a community happening in the U.S. `Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important…
Sanction is an old weapon. Warring parties are using the weapon since ages. Today, Lords of the World, the Empire, almost rampantly use this weapon – sanction – to further…
Crises One can identify the present time as The Age of Crises. “The world system is riddled with crisis.”1 Crises in the areas of finance and banking, and environment-ecology have…
Several stories of courage and firm determination of four martyrs of Kakori case have become an important part of the legends of our freedom movement. This case is regarded as…
Two Paths in Kenya. Shiraz Durrani, Vita Books, 2023. Shiraz Durranis book: Two Paths is a crucial work to understand the tragedy of an African liberation being stolen and degraded…
“A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.” -Maya Angelou The twenty seven books of the New Testament constitute only a…
ONE: The Story of the Ultimate Myth by Mansoor Khan Harper Collins India, 2023, Pp. 145 Available at Amazon Rs. 449/- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is a gem of a book! It…
The traditional Marxist critique of ideology has understood both the functional and epistemological dimensions of bourgeois ideologue’s claims. This tradition has always emphasized how ideas are both conditioned by the…
Alfred De Zayas, Building A Just World Order, Atlanta, GA, USA, Clarity Press, Inc., 2021, pp. ix + 466. ISBN: 978-1-949762-42-6, EBook IBSN: 978-1-949762-43-3. Happiness depends on being free, and…
Preface to the book by Durrani, Nazmi: Tunakataa! We Say No! Resistance Poems in Kiswahili and English Reflecting Life in Kenya in the 1980s. Forthcoming: Nairobi: Vita Books. [Tunakataa: Kiswahili…
These essays and stories about the bicycle have been written since 2017. There are ten essays and two short stories. The essays are divided in two groups – Shorter essays…
'Jalabharadinarathrangal' has been classified as a novel though the label doesn't seem to do justice to the genre. What the author has dished out for readers through this book can…
Summary and Analysis Last year in the summer of 2022 a wonderful friend named Debbie sent me a copy of Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad’s new book The Withdrawal. A year…
Mindless, blind growth driven by neoliberal capitalism is destroying the Biosphere and the very basis of Humanity’s existence. “The Future is Degrowth. A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism” summarizes…
The recent highly unfortunate communal violence in Mewat region has drawn much comment, including appeals for unity and harmony. However enough attention has not been given to the rich tradition…
Book Review: Rohingya of the Arakan: Conflict, Crisis and Solutions by Nurul Islam (The Other Press, Kuala Lumpur, Paperback, 1st ed., 2022) The Rohingyas of Myanmar are a stateless people…
Anti-racist Jewish Australian writer Antony Loewenstein’s latest book “The Palestine Laboratory” describes how genocidally racist Apartheid Israel mercilessly uses high technology weapons, fences, and comprehensive surveillance to comprehensively control the…
Golden Semee Of Ahad Zargar , Translator: Mushtaque Barq Poetry, at its core, serves as a conduit for the expression of one's deepest emotions, a realm where sentiments are…
More than the story of a brave gutsy fourteen- year- old girl, I Kick and I Fly is a testament of conviction, for both the protagonist of the novel, Heera…
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